Dos-based exercises that demonstrate classic studies in human memory

Exercises in Human Physiology

Functional and genetic studies demonstrate that mutation in the COX15 gene can cause Leigh syndrome.

L eigh syndrome is a subacute necrotising encephalomyelopathy characterised by delayed onset of symptoms, hypotonia, feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, motor regression, and brain stem signs. The main laboratory findings are raised lactate in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid, but the diagnosis is only confirmed by the presence of bilateral symmetrical lesions in the basal ganglia, thalam...

Genetic studies in NZB mice. V. Recombinant inbred lines demonstrate that separate genes control autoimmune phenotype

The genetic basis for autoimmunity in NZB mice has been investigated through analysis of recombinant inbred lines produced by mating NZB mice with two different non-autoimmune strains. Several genes (at least six) were found to be necessary for the production of eight traits characteristic of the NZB mice that were studied. No fundamental genetic defect (an "autoimmunity gene") was identified t...

Cardiac Memory Studies in Two Human Models

6 List of original papers 7 List of abbreviations 8 Introduction 9 Cardiac cellular electrophysiology 12 Recording cardiac electricity 16 Electrocardiography (ECG) 16 Vectorcardiography (VCG) 16 Pacemaker treatment 20 Sick Sinus Syndrome 21 Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM) 21 Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW syndrome) 22 Aims 23 Material and Methods 24 Studies I and II 24 Study...

Using electrophysiology to demonstrate that cueing affects long-term memory storage over the short term.

As researchers who study working memory, we often assume that participants keep a representation of an object in working memory when we present a cue that indicates that the object will be tested in a couple of seconds. This intuitively accounts for how well people can remember a cued object, relative to their memory for that same object presented without a cue. However, it is possible that thi...