PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Butters Stotch, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Implicit Memory
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March 2, 2017: alzheimer"s disease, huntington"s disease & parkinson"s disease; semantic dementia, dementia, dementia a progressive cognitive decline beyond what is expected with normal aging, ex: alzheimer"s disease, parkinson"s disease, huntington"s disease, semantic dementia, numbers in us: Mid stages: unable to function; need to be in nursing home. *ad is related to very early atrophy in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. *atrophy of entorhinal cortex may be observed even earlier and it is more predictive of ad: two areas preserved in ad: motor cortex and visual cortex, memory in ad, free recall problems. *severe recall deficits in ad: recognition, dalla barba (1997) remember/know recognition (behavioral index, ad affects all forms of explicit memory. *deficits in recollection and familiarity in ad: skill learning, deweer, pillon, michon, & dubois (1993) *close to normal performance on mirror reversed reading: able to show normal learning, procedural memory is preserved in ad, perceptual implicit memory, partridge, knight, & freehan (1990)
