Exam 10: Memory Disorders

Clive Wearing became amnesic because:

In implicit memory tasks, patients with amnesic syndrome show normal repetition priming in word fragment completion.

Korsakoff's disease and frontal lobe amnesia are two forms of amnesia that are associated with confabulation.

Patient AM is recovering from a stroke in a hospital in Berlin, Germany.The patient has no history of mental illness, but insists that she is actually in a hospital in her hometown of Manchester, England.When asked as to why all the doctors and staff are speaking German, patient AM cannot explain it, but is insistent that she is in England.Your diagnosis?

Deficits in temporal ordering (that is, memory for time) are associated with which form of amnesia?

Describe Capgras Syndrome.

Retrograde amnesia is sometimes a function of:

Which of the following was symptomatic of H.M.'s amnesia?

Retrograde amnesia is seen after concussions because the blow to the head is thought to interfere with the ______ process.

Which is not a common cause of amnesia?

The method of vanishing cues:

The drugs that have been effective at alleviating symptoms of early Alzheimer's disease target acetylcholine receptors throughout the cortex.

Unlike amnesias due to brain damage, psychogenic amnesia sometimes involves:

ECT (electroconvulsive shock therapy) is used to treat severe depression.What effect does it have on memory?

Describe the function of implicit memory.

Source monitoring failures are likely to occur in frontal lobe amnesia.

Retrograde amnesia is seen after concussions because the blow to the head is thought to interfere with the effervescence process.

In implicit memory tasks, patients with amnesic syndrome show:

How does Confabulation affect amnesic patients?

Explain the term Psychogenic amnesia.