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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"amnesia"”.
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The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying dissociative amnesia
Dissociative amnesia refers to the loss of autobiographical memory with a presumed psychological cause. This can involve memory loss for traumatic experiences, such as in PTSD. It can also involve more extensive amnesia for several years, or, in its most extreme form, a fugue state involving total …
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New Learning Through Collaborative Discourse in Amnesia
… of preserved and impaired learning and memory in amnesia, and the memory determinants of common ground. In addition, it provides a demonstration that by employing a task involving real-world communication, with greater ecological validity than laboratory-based tasks, surprisingly impressive …
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The effects of hippocampal amnesia on retrieval orientation and novelty processing
The medial temporal lobes (MTLs), and in particular the hippocampus, have been the focus of a large body of research since the discovery of a memory deficit in patient H.M. following surgical removal of those brain regions. This research has pointed to the role of the hippocampus in supporting a …
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Memory systems of the human brain : dissociations among learning capacities in amnesia
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology, and Management, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1987.
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Reinterpreting selective impairments in memory: computational and empirical simulations of dissociations in amnesia
… of principles. Selective memory impairments in amnesia serve as the primary evidence for the multiple-system perspective. This thesis reports a critical appraisal of the multiple-system perspective using a combination of computational and empirical methods. In the computational analysis, I adopt …
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Studies on cellular changes and amnesia in a rat model of electroconvulsive therapy
… treatment abolished the ECS-induced retrograde amnesia, but the level of glial cell activation and cell death were unchanged or even slightly increased. Our results suggest that the ECS-induced amnesia is uncoupled from cell loss and glial cell activation, and that lithium treatment might be a …
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
'Post-colonial Dislocation and Amnesia: A Cure from Molefi Kete Asante's An Afrocentric Manifesto' aims at investigating the epistemological problems and theoretical inconsistencies in contemporary post-colonial studies. Capitalizing Molefi Kete Asante's theorizations on agency, location, identity, …
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Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties
This inter-disciplinary dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in Missouri, Bates County and Cass County. Employing Critical Race Theory as the …
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I Dance Land: An Apprenticeship with Wind and Water: Depatterning Somatic Amnesia, Repatterning Ecosomatic Senses
… through which I seek to depattern my somatic amnesia and repattern my ecosomatic relationship to the land – a portal into what it means to move and think with the land and to ground knowledge by way of sensing and moving. EcoSomatics enlarges the notion of sensory motor amnesia by attending to …
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Lithium and brain plasticity - studies on glial cell changes and electroconvulsive treatment-induced amnesia in rats
… in association with ECT may protect against amnesia. During recent years, lithium has been shown to reduce memory deficits induced by stroke, stress, head trauma etc. in rodents. In paper IV, we investigated the effect of ECS and lithium treatment on spatial memory and demonstrated robust …
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Memory, Amnesia, and the Hippocampal System: The Time Course and Neural Substrates of Relational (Declarative) Memory
Taken together, these findings indicate that relational memory processes occur early and spontaneously, and are critically dependent upon the hippocampus, consistent with and extending the relational memory theory.
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The Use of ThorazineR (Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride) as an Aid to Analgesia and Amnesia During Labor and Delivery
With the present day practice of obstetrics, almost all women are given drugs of one type or another to relieve the pain of labor. Various medications, such as morphine, DemerolR, scopolomine, paraldehyde, and the barbiturates, have been employed alone or in combination. Because of the depressant …
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The Relationship Between Episodes of Dissociative Amnesia, Symptomology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Childhood Sexual Abuse
… Disorder (PTSD), and episodes of dissociative amnesia is both relevant and useful in the therapeutic setting. Identifying indicative factors for a history of childhood sexual abuse and including them in a standardized therapeutic assessment will assist therapists in planning future treatment. …
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Individuals With Amnesia are not Stuck in Time: Evidence From Risky Decision-Making, Intertemporal Choice, and Scaffolded Narratives
… the supposition that individuals with amnesia are cognitively stuck in time. In Experiment 1, I used a Galton-Crovitz cueing paradigm to test etiologically diverse amnesic cases on their ability to richly recollect autobiographical episodic memories and imagine future experiences. In …
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“Where foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin”: Topographies of memory and amnesia in Poland and Spain
… and the resulting government-sanctioned cultural amnesia. Two such illustrations of institutionalized practices of forgetting are Spain’s pacto de silencio (pact of silence), imposed after the death of Franco, and Poland’s recent law making it a criminal offense to discuss or imply Polish guilt in …
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The Effect of Electroconvulsive Shock Following One-Trial Avoidance Learning in the Rat
… response, they will display initial retrograde amnesia and that this amnesia will diminish over time as manifested by recovery of the avoidance response; (2) This recovery is not a pure function of time but involves re-exposure to the original learning situation.
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Long-term outcome following severe and very severe closed head injury during childhood
… frequently where the duration of post-traumatic amnesia exceeds three weeks. Global impairment of IQ appears to be unlikely where post-traumatic amnesia lasts for less than one week. Subjects with a history of three weeks post- traumatic amnesia appear to be pervasively impaired in tests of …
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