Brain Function: Memory, Sleep, Cognition, and Aphasia

Posted on Feb 18, 2025 in Psychology and Sociology

The Importance of Forgetting

Retrieve information/memory: To bring back, to remember information.
Retrieval of information: The process of getting information back.
The brain can’t keep holding onto everything; it doesn’t have the capacity to keep every piece of information.
Dredge up: To ruminate.
Ruminate: To think carefully for a long time.
To shut memories out: To avoid thinking about those memories.
To shut memories down: To avoid thinking but remember later.
To forget on purpose: To forget things intentionally.
To recall information/memory: To remember.

Onset of sleep: When you begin to sleep. Transition from wakefulness into sleep.
To doze: To fall asleep. To have a short sleep, especially during the day.
To be sleep deprived: Not having enough sleep.
Sleep something off: To forget or get rid of something by sleeping.
To seek solace in slumber: Try to find calm by sleeping.
To be prevented from sleeping: Not allowed to sleep.
Sleep deprivation: Suffering from lack of sleep.
PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Heightened startle: Increased shock of surprise.
Disrupt the consolidation of trauma memories: Prevent the consolidation of trauma memories from continuing or developing.
To jibe: To concur with, tally with.
Strengthening memories: Make memories stronger.
Ingrained memory: Consolidated memory.
TBI: Traumatic brain injury.

To need greatly or urgently: To crave
Not cooked: Raw
To improve: Boost
To take or pull off: Remove
To prevail over; overcome: Remain
Epicatechin: Organic compound to brain-altering food molecules (in cocoa).
Cognition-boosting compound: Compounds that increase cognition.
Mild cognitive impairment: More memory and thinking problems than others your age.
Spatial memory: Ability to remember the position/location of objects/places.
Brain-altering food:
Growth of blood vessels:

For right-handed people: Language functions are centralized in the left hemisphere of the brain.
For left-handed people: Language functions are centralized in the right hemisphere of the brain.
Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s area: The two main areas associated with language/connected by an arcuate fasciculus.
Broca’s Area: Helps us speak. It’s responsible for language expression.
Broca’s area damaged: People tend to have trouble producing speech.
Aphasia: Is any type of disorder that involves language.
Wernicke’s area damaged: People have no trouble producing words but the words don’t make any sense.
Global Aphasia: Refers to producing and understanding language.
Conduction aphasia: Refers to people’s ability to conduct information.
Agraphia: Inability to write.
Anomia: Inability to name things.
Neural plasticity: Is the brain’s ability to adapt and move functions to new parts.
Split-brain patient: Communication between the two hemispheres is disrupted by the corpus collosum.

Bilingual: Somebody who uses two or more languages in daily lives.
Simultaneous: Somebody who learns both languages / occurring, existing at the same time.
Sequential: Somebody who learns one language first and then the other one.
Localization theory: Both languages get their separate parts of the left hemisphere + no sharing.
Shared theory: Both languages are stored in the same spot in the brain.
Amalgamated theory: Some areas which are shared and some areas which are not.
Intervention: To discuss with the patient which language is more important for them.
Assessment: To consider how your assessment tools were referenced/ patient’s culture.
Stroke: Rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
Recovery: Restoration to a former or better condition.
The jury is still out: No decision has been made or not certain answer.