UMGC PSYC341 Week 6 Discussion Latest 2022 January

PSYC341 Memory and Cognition

Week 6 Discussion

Choose one of the topics below to use for this discussion.  Please make sure your initial post is 2-3 paragraphs in length.  Feel free to use supporting documentation (other resources) as well.

Option 1

You read about dementia this week. Look up how memory loss associated with Alzheimer's may be reversible (i.e., https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-info-monkey/201609/memory-loss-associated-alzheimers-may-be-reversible; http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/alzeimers-memory-loss-symptoms-reversed-dementia-disease-patients-recover-mit-study-a7884041.html;

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-info-monkey/201609/memory-loss-associated-alzheimers-may-be-reversible).  What do you think about the research in this field?  Does it look promising?  Where should it go from here?  Are there any cons associated with this research and line of inquiry?  (You need not use the links above—feel free to find other research.)

 Option 2

Think of a book or a movie that has had a character with one of the disorders you read about in the text this week (Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, aphasia, schizophrenia, depression, traumatic brain injury, OCD, hoarding, conversion disorder, etc.). Briefly describe the book or movie, and discuss the symptoms of the character who has the disorder. What the characterization of the disorder accurate? How so? Were there inaccuracies? What were they? What did you think of the portrayal of the disorder?

Option 3

Provide a fictitious account of a brain injury. Describe what happened (e.g., car crash) and the symptoms that the person is experiencing (e.g., loss of balance, personality changes, etc.). Go into enough detail that your classmates can guess what brain area was damaged (frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, brain stem/cerebellum). Do NOT state in your initial post what area was damaged—you can reveal it in your interactions with classmates after they have read your initial post.