PSY372H1 Lecture 5: PSY372 - Chapter 16 (Lecture 5)
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Psy372 - chapter 16-17: amnesia and other conditions that affect memory (lecture 5) Causes of amnesia: blow to the head, infection (encephalitis), stroke, alzheimer"s alcoholism (korsakoff"s syndrome), surgical intervention. Reotrgrade versus anterograde amnesia: usually co-occur it is rare to have one without the other, anterograde amnesia. Inability to learn new information after the injury. May improve in cases when dominant amnesia is retrograde. Permanent for cases where anterograde amnesia is more prominent: retrograde amnesia ( soap opera amnesia") the loss of memories prior to an incident. Usually follows a graded loss of memories. Retrograde amnesia for several months prior to. Motor skills implicit memory is intact and can still learn. In h. m"s case preservation of short term memory. H. m was using a mnemonic in order to remember a number. If his attention was diverted to another topic he wouldn"t be able to remember the number of the fact he was given a number to remember.
