Physical Basis of Memory Formation

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Across
  1. 2. The ___ temporal lobe is the inner surface area towards the middle of the temporal lobe that includes the hippocampus and amygdala
  2. 3. The type of amnesia when brain damage causes loss of memory for information or events experienced after the trauma
  3. 5. The type of amnesia when brain damage affects memory for information or events experienced before the trauma
  4. 7. Any loss of memory, partial or complete, temporary or permanent is known as ___
  5. 8. The lobe where the hippocampus is found
  6. 10. After a memory is activated and retrieved from LTM it needs to be consolidated again. This is known as ___
  7. 12. ___ disease is the most common type of dementia that involving degeneration of brain neurons
  8. 16. Research on consolidation involved giving rats ___ shock therapy after learning to run through a maze
  9. 19. One explanation for the decline in memory over the lifespan
  10. 20. ___ syndrome involves severe memory disorders associated with damage to the brain structures involved with memory, and often caused by chronic alcoholism
Down
  1. 1. Damage that is inflicted through injury which interferes with functioning
  2. 2. The case study of Henry ___ provided evidence for the independent functioning of STM and LTM
  3. 3. This toxic protein is seen is high amounts in the brains of Alzheimer's patients
  4. 4. Normal memory decline over the lifespan tends to involve ___ memories rather than procedural and semantic memories
  5. 6. A large group of illnesses that cause progressive decline in mental functioning, including memory
  6. 9. If memory retrieval is interfered with, newly reconsolidated memories may ___ from their original versions
  7. 11. ___ disease is characterised by a progressive decline in structure, activity and function of brain tissue
  8. 12. The area of the brain responsible for the emotional associations with memory
  9. 13. The process of consolidation takes about one ___
  10. 14. Damage to the amygdala leaves a person unable to learn a ___ ___ through Classical Conditioning
  11. 15. The area of the brain along with the medial temporal lobe that is involved in the formation of new long term memories
  12. 17. The theory that proposes structural changes to the neurons occur when something new is being learned
  13. 18. Accumulated amyloid and tau proteins form ___ and ___ which inhibit communication between neurons in the brains of Alzheimer's patients