Jordan Borgerding Real World Case Study of Brain Injury The Last Hippie is the story of a young male‚ Greg F.‚ who suffers profound cognitive alterations and brain damage as a result of a midline tumor. Greg F. was born and grew in the 1950s‚ in a comfortable household in Queens‚ with both parents. He used to be a gifted boy‚ with an ambition for songwriting. With time‚ Greg started to question the principles and conventions of his life with parents; a teenager in the late sixties‚
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Clive Wearing was an English musician and musicologist. In 1985 when he was in his mid-forties he was infected by a viral infection encephalitis. It caused brain damage in the hippocampus and after that he was affected with anterograde and retrograde amnesia. His memory lasted from 07-30 seconds and he was unable to create new memories. He could not transfer information from short-term memory to long-term memory. An MRI scan showed that Wearing’s brain’s hippocampus and some of the frontal regions has
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DSM-IV & DSM-IV-TR. Retrieved November 16‚ 2008‚ from Behavenet Clinical Capstone Web site: http://www.behavenet.com/capsules Cleveland Clinic‚ (2008). Dissociative amnesia. Retrieved November 16‚ 2008‚ from Cleveland Clinic Health Information Web site: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Dissociative_Disorders/hic_ Dissociative amnesia. Comer‚ R. J. (2005). Fundamentals of abnormal psychology (4th ed.). New York: Worth. MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia‚ (2008‚ July 23). Conversion Disorder. Retrieved
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Exam 2 study guide Type A personality A personality pattern characterized by hostility‚ cynicism‚ drivenness‚ impatience‚ competitiveness‚ and ambition. Produces continual stress and often leads to coronary heart disease. Know the difference between the anxiety and stress disorders and symptoms GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER (GAD)- A disorder marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous events and activities Symptoms- Excessive or ongoing anxiety and worry
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become weakened. For instance‚ the food you ate last week. Over time‚ you won’t be able to remember what you eat over the week. With that‚ the event was taken place when he was small. In consequences‚ it can be related to infantile amnesia. It can be related to infantile amnesia because of the inability of an adult have to recall memories from early childhood. Probably Jim can recall the details of the event‚ yet he was incorrect about the memories of the event. With that in mind‚ another possibility is
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Two weeks ago Jim began to recount a vivid‚ flashbulb memory from his childhood of the day he found out that his parents won the lottery. He describes the exact place he was sitting‚ the board game he was playing‚ and even the people he was with at the time. Recently‚ Jim discovered that he was wrong about his recall of that very day. I plan to explain why Jim had such an inaccurate memory of this experience by defining a flashbulb memory and describing the factors that play when false memories occur
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Henry Gustav Molaison is likely the most studied individual in neuroscience history along with one of the most influential and beneficial cases in medical history. Also known as ‘Patient HM’ for privacy reasons‚ Henry was studied for more than 50 years and had over 12‚000 scholarly papers published regarding the research conducted on him. The work conducted with Henry established the fundamental principles involving the organizational processes of memory and without this individuals significant contribution
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As you meet the daily activities of life‚ these stimuli that impinge on your sense organs and your experience of stimuli. Sensation – is receiving the stimulation through our sense organs. Perception – is becoming aware and interpreting the stimulation. Perception Refers to the actual experience of the world. It is the process by which the brain interprets and organizes the information received by sense organs. The Perceptual field The most fundamental fact about our perceptual
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coax the brain to remember or in some cases forget things by introducing certain chemicals into the body. This research is being practiced in search for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The last section of the video was on a study of patients with Amnesia. Mieke
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Upon hearing about the requirements for this assignment I was puzzled on what to write about. I sought the advice of my peers and mentors‚ yet all of their answers tended to be somewhat the same. Every disorder that was given to me as an example seemed to be that of a common disorder that most people know about or would be familiar with such as schizophrenia or anxiety disorders and the like. What I found more difficult was to think of a disorder that isn’t well known and hasn’t been broadcasted
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