PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brenda Milner, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
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Clinical memory disorders: amnesia: loss of memory. Can result from brain injury, drugs, or illness: retrograde amnesia: inability to remember events that happened before a trauma, anterograde amnesia: inability to establish memories for new events after trauma. Can remember past perfectly well but can"t store new memories. Minor epileptic seizures began at 10: history of epilepsy in his family. He had a bike accident and was unconscious for a bit so this may have caused his epilepsy. By mid-20s, up to 10 minor seizures and blackouts a week and 1 major seizure so he blacked out. Parietal, and something else (basically removed a large portion of the hippocampus) He wouldn"t remember when the nurse came. His favorite uncle died 3 years ago but he didn"t remember and would act like that was new news to him. He couldn"t for new memories: brenda milner, neuropsychologist, assessed the cognitive abilities of hm and other patients on whom scoville had performed surgery.
