Organic amnesia is a neurological disorder characterized by a dense impairment of memory in the context of normal intelligence and other preserved mental abilities. Investigations of patients with this disorder have enhanced the understanding of the...

Analyses of learning and memory increasingly attempt to take account of clinical and experimental research on victims of amnesia. Most of this literature has focused on pathologies of memory associated with demonstrable brain lesions or the...

Do you remember being born? Your first birthday party? Your first day of school? Despite the significance of these early experiences, most adults recall little or nothing about them. The absence of autobiographical memory for events that occurred...

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...

Loss of memory as a result of brain injury or deterioration, shock, fatigue, senility, drug use, alcoholism, anesthesia, illness, or neurotic reaction. Amnesia may be anterograde (in which events following the causative trauma or disease are forgotten)...

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

Failure of learning and MEMORY (see AMNESIC SYNDROME). IAN...

Partial or total loss of memory for past...

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Amnesia (from Greek á¼μνησία) (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...