alzheimers

• what is alzheimers?

  most common form of dementia, being characterised by memory loss, confusion.

  • impairs certain cognitive systems, especially deteriorating new events.
  • also affects the central executive and visuospatial processing.
  • inability to recall autobiographical info from episodic=affects STM and LTM
  • memory loss associates with depletion of brain matter
• Baddeley (2001)


  investigated attentional control in patients with Alzheimers.

  • had to look for letter Z among easy/difficult distractor letters and dual task procedure
  • those with alzheimers performed worse on difficult version and more impaired during dual task than control group without alzheimers. this suggests where attention is needed on more than one thing the disease specifically impairs someone