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  2. Memory and trauma - Wikipedia

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    Memory and trauma is the deleterious effects that physical or psychological trauma has on memory. Memory is defined by psychology as the ability of an organism to store, retain, and subsequently retrieve information. When an individual experiences a traumatic event, whether physical or psychological trauma, their memory can be affected in many ...

  3. Forgetting - Wikipedia

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    Forgetting or disremembering is the apparent loss or modification of information already encoded and stored in an individual's short or long-term memory.It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage.

  4. How We Form Memories and Experience Memory Loss ... - AOL

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    Tracy’s lab at the Buck Institute is studying memory loss from Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. “Everybody experiences normal age-related cognitive decline, not just people ...

  5. Post-traumatic amnesia - Wikipedia

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    Because PTA involves confusion in addition to the memory loss typical of amnesia, the term "post-traumatic confusional state" has been proposed as an alternative. [ 4 ] There are two types of amnesia : retrograde amnesia (loss of memories that were formed shortly before the injury) and anterograde amnesia (problems with creating new memories ...

  6. Is My Memory Loss Normal...Or An Early Sign Of Alzheimer's? - AOL

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    Alzheimer’s-related memory loss is more than just not being able to remember someone’s name. “[We’re talking about] forgetting major events or having a loss of whole episodes,” Dr ...

  7. Retrograde amnesia - Wikipedia

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    The hippocampus deals largely with memory consolidation, [35] where information from the working memory and short-term memory is encoded into long-term storage for future retrieval. Amnesic patients with damage to the hippocampus are able to demonstrate some degree of unimpaired semantic memory , despite a loss of episodic memory , due to ...

  8. Amnesia - Wikipedia

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    The law follows a logical progression of memory loss due to disease. First, a patient loses the recent memories, then personal memories, and finally intellectual memories. He implied that the most recent memories were lost first. [57] Case studies have played a large role in the discovery of amnesia and the parts of the brain that were affected.

  9. Traumatic memories - Wikipedia

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    Memory reconsolidation is a process of retrieving and altering a pre-existing long-term memory. Reconsolidation after retrieval can be used to strengthen existing memories and update or integrate new information. This allows a memory to be dynamic and plastic in nature. Just like in consolidation of memory, reconsolidation, involves the ...