COGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia, Psychogenic Amnesia
11 Oct 2018
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Loss/ failure to form a memory: describes forgetfulness, hollywood has kind of railroaded, determined and dominated what people understand it to. Impression of its meaning comes from the media mean. In severe cases, the person is effectively living in the present tense; no trace is ever laid down of what is just happening. Retrograde amnesia: retro-signifying backwards in time, forgetting things from earlier. Anterograde amnesia: antero-signifying loss of memory for events occurring in front of or (just) earlier, forgetting what has just happened. Retrograde amnesia: prevalent in hollywood, rare elsewhere. Following emotional trauma past psychiatric history. Neurological cause unlikely: can be neurological, focal retrograde amnesia. Case jg (miller et al. , 2001, neuropsychologia) 33 year old man with thalamic strokes. (cid:1006)(cid:1005) (cid:455)ear old (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)ho did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) she"d (cid:271)ee(cid:374) to ital(cid:455) Patchy retrograde amnesia: everyone has some difficulty remembering the past. Normally, remote memories are affected most: with clinical retrograde amnesia, recent memories are usually affected more than remote memories.
