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AMNESIA

Amnesia encompasses various types of memory loss, often linked to damage in the hippocampus or other brain areas. It can result from physical trauma, such as head injuries, strokes, or substance abuse, as well as psychological factors.

AMNESIA

AMNESIA

Selective Amnesia

patients forget certain parts of their memory
often used for treatment purposes in psychiatry

Epileptic Amnesia

in epilepsy patients
response to some anti-epilepsy drugs

Memories of Habits

Procedural memory

Memories of Facts

Declarative memory

Memory processes

Recall
Storage
Encoding

Anterograde amnesia

patients can learn how to take care of themselves and develop procedural memory.
Also a stroke, trauma, surgery, encephalitis, alcoholism, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, anoxia to the brain, etc.
Damage to the hippocampus can result in anterograde amnesia
affects the ability to form new memories but not memories of the past.

Drug-Induced Amnesia

unable to recall events that occurred when under the influence of the drug

Amnesia in Korsakoff’s Syndrome

occurs in chronic alcoholics or malnutrited patients
presence of both anterograde and retrograde amnesia.

Transient Global Amnesia

discrete and reversible loss of retrograde memory function
abnormalities in the hippocampal area, transient reduced cerebral blood flow, transient seizures, or migraine attacks

Infantile Amnesia

unable to recall events from their early childhood
due to the development of the brain at an early age

Post-traumatic Amnesia

caused by any trauma or injury to the head.
anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, or both

temporary or permanent

Dissociative Amnesia

episodic memory loss.
psychological causes
Physical or psychological trauma, Nutrient Deficiencies, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Clinical Features, Effect of Amnesia on Declarative Information,

Retrograde amnesia

CAUSES
Also cerebrovascular accidents, stroke, head trauma, substances abuse, etc.
Sometimes when the hippocampus is damaged
Inability to recall the past