Which of the following is not a true difference between Pick's disease and Alzheimer's disease?
a) Pick's disease occurs ten to twenty times less frequently than Alzheimer's disease.
b) The onset of Pick's disease tends to occur at an earlier age than Alzheimer's disease.
c) Changes in personality occur early in Pick's disease and not until late in Alzheimer's disease.
d) Changes in memory have an earlier onset in Pick's disease than they do in Alzheimer's disease.
e) c and d
Question 2
The case of Henry Molaison (H.M.) demonstrated that the hippocampus was:
a. the location of long-term memories.
b. the location of short-term memories.
c. involved in converting short-term memories to long-term memories.
d. necessary for retrieval of long-term memories.
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