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Post tramatic stress disorder
Symptoms must:
Last more than 1 month
Cause significant impairment in social, occupational or other areas of functioning
Retrograde Amnesia
The inability to remember what happened before the accident that caused the trauma/memory loss.
Macrocephaly
Syndrome of having an enlarged brain, damage to the cerebellum.
Protein APP
Material inside all brain cells that is cut by two alzheimers enzymes. Is a healthy part of the brain until manipulated by alzheimers
Brain stem
is the lower part of the brain, adjoining and structurally continuous with the spinal cord. The brain stem provides the main motor and sensory innervation to the face and neck via the cranial nerves. Crucial for life
diagnostic bias
More highly schooled patients may score higher on dementia screening
Brain battering Hypothesis
More educated people may exercise more and eat healthier leading to healthier brains
Brain reserve hypothesis
If you have lots of abilities your are just as likely as anyone else to get alzheimers. You will simply handle the brain plaque buildup better because of intelligence.
Nun study
Experiment that looks at letters of nuns in youth in comparison to their mental health at an older age.

Those that had better essays got less alzheimers.
Neurofibrillary tangle
The tangle is inside the cells
Senile plaques
Sticky gummy material that oozes out into the brain and pushes/destroys the brain cells.

Out and around cells. Outside cells!
Azheimers effect
Memory is impaired, but emotional changes also occur.
amygdalae
One part of the system in the brain (a crucial part) that controls your emotions.
Cerebral cortex
All parts of the brain contained in it.
Hippocampus
means seahorse (its shaped like one). Deep within the central lobe. Short term memory storage. Crucial memory system attacked by Alzheimer's.
Alzheimers Disease Evaluation
Consult neurologist. Examination of history including family history.

No specific test currently exist. Diagnoses through exclusion
Mild cognitive impairment
Cognitive impairment that does not impair instrumental activities of daily life (shopping, finances etc). Can function well in life, but when formally tested their memory is worse than most population.
Philippe Pinel 1745-1826
One of the first men to treat the insane as patients instead of prisoners. 1795 was when it first happened.
Semantic memory
general knowledge about the world including new word meanings.
Episodic memory
For events that have a specific spatial and temporal context
Anterograde Amnesia
Memory problem is happening after the event. Cant make new memories
Temporal lobes
Very important for memory. 2 on each side of the head. A key component for short term memory
HM
Had intractable epilepsy w/ unconsciousness at 9. Was treated with removal of medial temporal lobe by william beecher scoville. Seizures diminished but memory loss occurred.
Occipital region
Where the eyes send their messages. Further behind than the cerrebelum. This portion activates when blind people touch things.
Confabulation
The formation of false memories or beleifes about the self or environment as a resuly of neuro/psych dysfunction. The confusion of imagination or confused applications of true memories.
Corpus callusum
What connects the 2 parts of the brain
Agnesis
Means "not there"
Cerebellum
part of the brain in the rear that involves balance
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