Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a benign neurological condition in which the prominent deficit is a temporary organic amnesic syndrome. The episode of TGA is stereotyped. It usually begins suddenly, lasts for at least several hours, and resolves...

Amnesia refers to the loss of memory. Memory loss may result from damage to parts of the brain vital for memory storage, processing, or recall (the limbic system, including the hippocampus in the medial temporal lobe). Amnesia can also be a symptom of...

When bilateral injury or disease occurs to the medial aspect of the TEMPORAL LOBE of the brain, an AMNESIC SYNDROME results. The syndrome includes the loss of FACT MEMORY and EVENT MEMORY from the period prior to the onset of amnesia, usually in a...

In psychiatry and neuropsychology, term referring to loss of memory. In neurolinguistics, this term may refer specifically to loss of memory for words....

Amnesia (from Greek Ἀμνησία) (see spelling differences) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-09-2006 Enron amnesia Date: 05-09-2006, Tuesday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions WHAT A SHAME that Ken Lay is no longer front-page news. Even the former Enron chief's personal testimony at his criminal fraud trial hasn't catapulted...

In abandoning universal service, we forget what this country great. ALLAN PEARCE We're said to be living in the nasty 1990s, and there is new evidence to support that opinion. It came when FCC voted 3-2 to scale back its controversial...

He's flipped through the photographs, listened to the stories, read through all the letters. But more than a month after he left his home in Washington and woke up in Denver with no memory, Jeff...

Joe Bieger walked out his front door with his two dogs one morning last fall a beloved husband, father, grandfather and assistant high school athletic director. Minutes later, all of that, indeed, his very identity, would seemingly be wiped from his brain's hard drive.For 25...