Lecture 15. Change Your Brain (Learning and Memory)

Patient H.M.

Patient H.M.

had bilateral removal of the anterior temporal lobes

declarative memory

type of long-term memory; things you know you can tell others

nondeclarative memory

type of long-term memory; procedural, things you know that you can show by doing

Hebbian synapses

(cells that fire together wire together)

NMDA receptors

a CA1 subfield glutamate receptor (after its selective ligand, N-methyl-D-aspartate)

AMPA receptors

a CA1 subfield glutamate receptor, (which bind the glutamate agonist AMPA)