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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, 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.

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Other names
Amnesic syndrome
Specialty
Psychiatry, neurology

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Amnesia

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Triples184
Avg. degree1.98
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related to Types · 66
Amnesia → An, Another, Anterograde, B1, Boston, CBT, Childhood, Cognitive, Dissociative, Drug-induced, DWI, Episodic, Explicit, Fentanyl, For, Formerly, Having, However, In, Individuals
related to Henry Molaison · 22
Amnesia → After, Brenda Milner, Even, He, Henry Molaison, His, However, If, In, It, Molaison, Molaison's, Once Molaison, Physicians, Researchers, Scoville, Studies, The, They, This
has cause · 13
Amnesia → Alzheimer's, An, B12, Examples, Head, NMDA, Physical, Regardless, Retrograde, The, There, Traumatic, What
related to In fiction · 13
Amnesia → Bill, Franz Kafka, Global, In, Jonathan Lethem, Lethem, Samuel Beckett, Sigmund Freud, The Vintage Book, What, Where, Who, Who's Bill
is a · 10
Amnesia → common motif in fiction despite being extraordinarily rare in reality, deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, inability to create new memories due to brain damage, inability to remember information that was acquired before a particular date, inability to remember where, inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store, loss of memory about one specific event, rare and unrecognized form of temporal lobe epilepsy, result of brain damage to the limbic system which control memories and emotions.Childhood amnesia, well-described medical and clinical phenomenon
related to history · 9
Amnesia → Case, First, French, He, Henry Molaison, Ribot's Law, The, Theodule-Armand Ribot, There
related to Non-declarative information · 9
Amnesia → According, Another, For, Korsakoff's, Priming, Some, There, This, Those
has treatment · 7
Amnesia → Emotional, However, In, Many, One, Since, This
related to Clive Wearing · 7
Amnesia → Another, Because, Clive Wearing, This, To, Wearing, Wearing's
related to Declarative information · 6
Amnesia → Declarative, For, LSJ, Semantic, She, While

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memory also brain information remember memories may events loss damage anterograde people hippocampus new retrograde recall caused patient able declarative

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AmnesiaOther namesAmnesic syndrome1.00infobox
AmnesiaSpecialtyPsychiatry, neurology1.00infobox
Amnesiais adeficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases0.90text
Amnesiais ainability to remember information that was acquired before a particular date0.90text
Amnesiais ainability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store0.90text
Amnesiais ainability to create new memories due to brain damage0.90text
Amnesiais aloss of memory about one specific event0.90text
Amnesiais aresult of brain damage to the limbic system which control memories and emotions.Childhood amnesia0.90text
Amnesiais awell-described medical and clinical phenomenon0.90text
Amnesiais ainability to remember where0.90text
Amnesiais arare and unrecognized form of temporal lobe epilepsy0.90text
Amnesiais acommon motif in fiction despite being extraordinarily rare in reality0.90text

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