LEARNING INTENTIONS & SKILLS

Learning Intention:
To be able to differentiate between the two types of amnesia and recognise
Alzheimer's as a neurodegenerative disease and a form of dementia

Skills:
Differentiate between anterograde and retrograde amnesia
Recognise the symptoms of Alzheimers and explain the slow
progression of the disease


AMNESIA: A TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT, PARTIAL OR COMPLETE LOSS OF MEMORY
Two Types-
Anterograde Amnesia: Memory loss of events which occur AFTER trauma
- Damage to the hippocampus
- Cannot transfer info from STM LTM (Cannot make new LTM)
- Old info interferes with new

Retrograde Amnesia: Memory loss of events that occurred BEFORE trauma
- Damage to the hippocampus
- Cannot access LTM
- New info interferes with remembering old info

RETRO means BACKWARDS ANTER means
FORWARDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omphbdtaw3s
A mans
personal
experience
explaining
Retrograde
&
Anterograde
amnesia
HOLLYWOODS TAKE ON AMNESIA
Lucy has
ANTERGRAD
E amnesia-
She cannot
retain any
new
information
Cannot
transfer STM
to LTM

Bourne has
RETRORADE
amnesia-
He cannot
recall
anything from
his past
before his
brain trauma

WHAT IS





Commonly recognized in the film; The Notebook-
A loving husband Noah, attempts to rekindle
his wife's memories of their long history by
reading to her from his notebook.

Alzheimers is a neurodegenerative disease and the most
common form of dementia - A progressive and incurable
illness that destroys neurons in the brain, causing severe
impairment of memory, reasoning, perception, language and
behaviour.

YOUTUBE CLIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc60yN8ODBs

In which part of the brain does Alzheimer's begin?


What are the two types of harmful proteins that are found in neurons?


Do people with Alzheimers disease experience brain shrinkage or
enlargement?


Do men or women have a higher risk of developing Alzheimers?



- Hippocampus


- Plaques and Tangles


- Shrinkage


- Women
SYMPTOMS OF ALZHEIMER'S
Memory loss of-
Event names
Stored knowledge
Confusion
Unusual irritability
Impaired decision
making
Difficulty performing
tasks
Personality changes
Lapses in judgment


Physiological markers of Alzheimer's-
Tissue loss throughout the brain
The cortex shrivels up, hippocampus
shrinks
Over time, the brain shrinks dramatically,
affecting nearly all its functions
SUMMARY
Amnesia is a temporary or permanent, partial or complete memory loss
Retrograde Amnesia: memory loss of events that occurred before trauma
Anterograde Amnesia: memory loss of events that occur after the trauma

Alzheimers is a neurodegenerative disease and the most common form of
dementia
Begins in the hippocampus and spreads throughout the brain destroying
neurons, causing significant brain shrinkage
Symptoms include loss of stored memory, unusual irritability, impaired
decision making etc.
HOMEWORK:

Add notes to slides and research any unfamiliar words, bring a question
regarding these slides to next lesson
By: Bethany Nicholls