Curated OER
A Life to Remember
Students test and discuss their ability to remember events in their recent and past history and reflect on cases of dissociative fugue and amnesia. They graph and analyze data to look for patterns in the ability to recall a list of...
Curated OER
It's All in Your Mind
Learners recognize diminishing cognitive abilities. affect independence. In this health lesson, students explore the struggles older people have so to their diminishing cognitive abilities.
BBC
Bbc News: Health: Amnesia
This resource provides a brief description of the many different types of amnesia.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Parkinson's Disease Workshop
College-level online biology course highlighting Parkinson's disease. Course topics include clinical characteristics, structural neuroimaging, neuropathology, genetics, and cognitive function. Course features include reading suggestions...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Brain Cognitive Science: Cognitive Neuroscience
College-level online neuroscience course focusing on human memories. Course highlights how memories are created and controlled, and how we are able to remember the past. Course features include readings and related resources on the topic.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Memories Form and How We Lose Them
Think back to a really vivid memory. Got it? Now try to remember what you had for lunch three weeks ago. That second memory probably isn't as strong- but why not? Why do we remember some things, and not others? And why do memories...
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Other
Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]
This is a publication on the human brain and how it works. Gives details on the neuron, how the senses interact with the brain and much more. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Curated OER
Kids Health: Alzheimer's Disease
What's the difference between normal forgetting and Alzheimer Disease which affects some older people? Find out what happens in the brain when you have this disease and how the doctor will treat it.
Healthline Media
Medical News Today: What Is Amnesia?
Amnesia is the loss of memory. Learn what the causes can be, the different types, the symptoms, how it is diagnosed, and what the treatments are.
Other
Pro health.com: Scientists Devise Scale for Measuring Alzheimer's
This article reveals that researchers have devised a way to measure the severity of Alzheimer's disease using an index.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Differential Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease
Read this passage and study the chart to answer a five-question quiz related to Differential Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease.
Diffen
Diffen: Alzheimer's vs. Dementia
Start learning about two diseases associated with old age with the comparison chart for Alzheimer's vs. Dementia. Then extend learning with an article and video about the topic.