Lecture 9 -- Memory

Question 1

What did Ribot do? What is Ribot’s law?

Answer 1

Called attention to the nature and
course of memory loss in dementia.

‘Ribot’s law’ describes the
temporal gradient commonly
observed in retrograde amnesia

Question 2

What did Korsakoff do?

Answer 2

Described a series of patients, mostly alcoholics, with a neuropsychiatric syndrome
prominently involving memory loss. KORSAKOFF’S SYNDROME

Question 3

What did Pick discover? What is Pick’s Disease?

Answer 3

Frontal lobe degeneration led to difficulties accessing memory.

Pick’s Disease: frontotemporal dementia that affects behavior or language in younger people

Question 4

What did Bekhterev discover?

Answer 4

The temporal lobe ‘softening’ in an amnesic