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intro.psych (Psyco 105) Discussion: Group 3 Discussion Group: Reading the Research-DID: Is the research important?
By Admin on Thursday, November 12, 1998 - 10:17 am:
Do you think this research is important? What theoretical and/or practical issues can the research address (if any)?
One theorectical issue that the research can address is that the different personalities of the person with DID are distinct. The research is important because it distinguishes between the effect of general knowledge and individual/prior experience on implicit memory.
This research is important. Not only does it provide better understanding for what DID patients go through, but this may help us understand memory in the bigger picture. Many parts of the brain have been mapped and labelled by a specific function. Many more functions have not been given a part of the brain that is dedicated to that function. One of these functions is memory. At first, it was thought that the entire brain stores memory. This theory was sort of put to rest the case of H.M. came out. HM was a severe epileptic, and had the medial portions of his temporal lobes removed. This treated the epilepsy, but created a very unique memory deficit. He could not form new memories. This implicated the hippocampus in the forming of memories. Another case, RB, further implicated this hypothesis. Unfortunately, these cases have many cases that go against them. We must also look at the circumstances of the brain in these cases. In HM, he had an existing brain disorder. It's hard to tell whether the epilepsy had anything to do with the memory loss or not. RB had memory loss because of a lack of blood to the brain (ischemia), which is a pretty devastating injury. This could have created more damage than in the hippocampus.
This research is important because, as stated earlier we know very little abou the brain and any research will help. DID is also hard to treat from what I understand, the man in the video we watched had to deal with it. I'm sure you learn coping skills but it would be almost more difficult for his wife for example.
this discussion question is for marks
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By Jene on Sunday, November 22, 1998 - 02:56 pm:
By Montresor on Monday, November 23, 1998 - 12:50 pm:
The point to this is that we know very little about memory and maybe experiments like this will help us tie everything together once further research has been done.
By Mollyc on Tuesday, November 24, 1998 - 11:35 am: