Amnesia
The amnesia is the loss partial or total of the memory.
It can be in particular the consequence of psychological disorders (being able to be temporary), or of a psychiatric disease or in neurological matter .
The Neuropsychologie studies the cases of lesions to the brain and the consequences which result from this on the memory: loss of certain capacities, whereas others remain intact.
Anterograde amnesia : The anterograde amnesia relates to the posterior facts to the accident or the disease which caused it. The subject is in the incapacity to form new memories, it progressively forgets the events of their unfolding. The situation is comparable with that of a computer whose RAM would be intact, but which would have neither hard drive nor peripheral of storage. Of Latin anterior, placed front. Antonym: retrograde amnesia, which corresponds to the loss of the memory of the events which preceded the traumatism.
Retrograde amnesia : deficit of the recall of information acquired before the pathological episode, it is never total (the covered period perhaps more or less long).
antéro-retrograde Amnesia
selective Amnesia
lacunar Amnesia (amnesic gap)
See too
Simple: Amnesia
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