Delerium - Acute state of confusion that is abrupt and is usually reversible
Parkinson's Disease - Motor disease characterized by shaking, rigidity, slowness of
movement, and difficulty walking; caused by lack of dopamine in substantia nigra
Korsakoff's Syndrome - A neurological disease resulting in loss of declarative memory,
caused by depletion of thiamine, usually due to long-term alcohol abuse
Symptoms of Korsakoff's - Anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, confabulation,
apathy, limited content in conversations, lack of insight
Anterograde Amnesia - Inability to form new memories
Retrograde Amnesia - Inability to recall memories prior to an event
Confabulation - Creating false memories or distorting real memories
Apathy - Lack of emotion
Sensory memory - Memory of stimuli after stimuli is removed; lasts less than a second
Short-term memory - Temporary immediate recall of information for processing; lasts
less than a minute
Chunking - Combining items into groups
Working Memory - Ability to manipulate mental information
Explicit Memory - Information consciously remembered
Implicit Memory - Information unconsciously remembered
Procedural Memory - Action-based information: processes, working memory, etc
Declarative Memory - Intentionally recalled information
Episodic Memory - Information based in experiences
, Semantic Memory - Facts, figures, dates, etc
Long-term Memory - Stored memory
Broca's Aphasia - Partial or total loss of ability to produce language
Wernicke's Aphasia - Inability to understand language
Aphasia - Loss of ability to comprehend or formulate language; different from a
developmental delay or dysfunction
Joint Attention - Two or more people paying attention to the same object
Theory of Mind - Recognition that others have a different perspective of same events
Parietal Lobe - Part of the brain responsible for somatosensory processing
Frontal Lobe - Mediates planning and necessary functions of planning
Occipital Lobe - Processing and storing visual information
Temporal Lobe - Processing and storing auditory information
Limbic System - Part of the brain responsible for emotions and memory processing
Cerebellum - Part of the brain responsible for motor coordination
Brain Stem - Responsible for basic life functions
Cerebrum - Outer most layer of the brain; contains the cortex and its connecting axons;
also known as the telencephalon
Corpus Callosum - Connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain
Amygdala - Responsible for emotional memory, specifically fear based memories
Thalamus - Relay station of the brain
Hippocampus - Responsible for storing memories from short-term to long-term and
responsible for spatial memory
Hypothalamus - Regulates secretion of hormones
Basal Ganglia - Part of the brain responsible for regulating voluntary movement
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