PSYC33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anterior Communicating Artery, Traumatic Brain Injury, Posterior Cerebral Artery
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Lecture 2: memory link program moderate to severe memory impairment. The main memory system neuropsychological rehabilitation focuses on is procedural memory. Application of multiple memory systems theory to intervention. If one memory system is damaged (which is typically episodic memory), other preserved systems can be tapped to support new learning. Development of learning techniques which capitalize on preserved memory abilities. Amnesia: permanent and severe disruption of memory (most commonly episodic memory: retrograde amnesia: variable impairment of remote member, anterograde amnesia: impaired ability to form new memories. In classic (focal) amnesia, other cognitive abilities can be preserved: intellectual ability, other types of memory function (working, semantic, and procedural memory, executive function, creativity, language, processing speed, visuospatial, sensory and mote processes. However, these cognitive abilities won"t be perfectly preserved will have some impairments. Damage to connecting pathway can also result in amnesia thus, can present in different manners: basal forebrain, hippocampal tract, and thalamic tract.
