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In some cases, the memory loss can extend back decades, while in other cases, people may lose only a few months of memory. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store. People with anterograde amnesia cannot remember things for long periods of time.
In another study 25% of healthy college students reported being familiar with alcoholic blackouts. 51% of the students reported that they had had at least one blackout. Blackouts were reported during activities such as spending money (27%), sexual conduct (24%), fighting (16%), vandalism (16%), unprotected intercourse (6%), and driving a car (3%).
Gazaway said he has yet to comply. He currently has 106 Suboxone patients. “I’m working to get it down,” he said. “I just can’t kick somebody out because I’m over census and they’re doing well.” In Maryland, partly because of Baltimore’s initiative, 888 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine.
Services that many researchers now believe are crucial, like assistance with staying in school or holding down a job, may not be eligible for reimbursement. “When you bill for things, you have to have a code for everything,” says Perkins, the UNC psychiatrist. “You can’t really do that for something like vocational services.”
Benzodiazepines, a class of psychiatric medication which increase GABA expression, have been found to produce anterograde amnesia, or a failure to encode memories after taking the medication. Subjects taking benzodiazepines are found to perform worse on learning and memory tasks compared to drug-naïve subjects. [62]
After graduating from high school, he took a gap year to play hockey. Then, he enrolled at Indiana University to study business. As we pulled up to his dorm, I saw a familiar face.
Psychologically, earworms are a cognitive “itch” that the brain automatically itches back, resulting in a vicious loop. As odd as the phenomenon is, the good news is, earworms are totally normal.
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