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Amnesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amnesia (from Greek ) is a memory condition in which memory is disturbed. In simple terms it is the loss of memory. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to t...
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Amnesia including various medical information. ... Symptoms of Amnesia ... Information provided on this site is for informational purposes only; it is not intended as a substitute for advice from your own medical team.
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Contrary to the popular notion of amnesia—in which a person suffers a severe blow to the head, for example, and cannot recall his or her past life and experiences—the principal symptom of amnesia is the inability to retain new information, beginning at the point at which the amnesia began.
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Patients showed a decrement as compared to normal controls, pointing to retrograde amnesia within semantic memory. No evidence for a gradient within this amnesia was found, although one was present on an autobiographic test of retrograde amnesia that had a wider time scale.
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines amnesia as "a disturbance in the memory of information stored in long-term memory, in contrast to short-term memory, manifested by total or partial inability to recall past experiences." Amnesia is a condition in which someone can't recall stored memories, like their mom's maiden name...
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Several recent studies have shown a flat retrograde amnesia for spatial information following lesions to the hippocampus in rats and mice. ... The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology...
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