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Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, [1] but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that is caused. [2] There are two main types of amnesia:
Korsakoff syndrome (KS) [1] is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by amnesia, deficits in explicit memory, and confabulation.This neurological disorder is caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B 1) in the brain, and it is typically associated with and exacerbated by the prolonged, excessive ingestion of alcohol. [2]
The 2020 South Korean TV series Find Me in Your Memory portrays the love story between a news anchorman with hyperthymesia and an actress with amnesia, connected by a past traumatic event. In the TV series Superstore, one of the characters, Sandra, has highly superior autobiographical memory, which occasionally ties into the plot.
Anterograde amnesia is one type of memory loss where people have difficulty forming new memories after the amnesia-causing event. Having a hard time remembering recent events? You may have a type ...
In most cases of anterograde amnesia, patients lose declarative memory, or the recollection of facts, but they retain nondeclarative memory, often called procedural memory. For instance, they are able to remember, and in some cases learn how to do things, such as talking on the phone or riding a bicycle, but they may not remember what they had ...
A person experiencing a TEA episode has very little short-term memory, so that there is profound difficulty remembering events in the past few minutes (anterograde amnesia), or of events in the hours before the onset of the attack, and even memories of important events in recent years may not be accessible during the amnestic event (retrograde amnesia). [6]
They discovered that inhibiting a protein called Activin A could stop dyskinesia symptoms and essentially erase the brain’s “bad memory” response to certain Parkinson’s therapies.
A person experiencing TGA has memory impairment; with an inability to remember events or people from the past few minutes, hours or days (retrograde amnesia) and has working memory of only the past few minutes or less, thus they cannot retain new information or form new memories beyond that period of time (anterograde amnesia). [4]