anterograde amnesia
A patient with anterograde amnesia cannot remember the doctor's name after being introduced.
Noun: * A neurological condition characterized by the inability to form new long-term memories after the onset of the condition. It is a specific type of memory loss where recall of events and information from before the onset typically remains intact, but creating new memories after that point becomes severely impaired or impossible.
This is a clinical, medical term used primarily in neurology, psychology, and psychiatry. It describes a specific symptom or syndrome resulting from brain injury, illness, or trauma. * The patient developed anterograde amnesia following the surgical procedure, unable to remember any of the doctors or nurses he met each day. * A classic symptom in some cases of severe hippocampal damage is profound anterograde amnesia. * The study focused on the mechanisms underlying anterograde amnesia in the tested animal models.
- Clinical Diagnosis: The term is used to specify the nature of memory deficit, distinguishing it from retrograde amnesia (loss of memories from before the onset).
- In popular media: Often depicted, though sometimes inaccurately, in films and stories about characters who cannot remember new experiences.
- Anterograde (adjective): Referring to forward movement or impairment in forming new memories. Often used in the compound term "anterograde amnesia."
- Retrograde amnesia (noun): The loss of memories that were formed the onset of amnesia.
- Amnesia (noun): The general, overarching term for memory loss.
- Post-traumatic amnesia (specifically when caused by injury, though this term can sometimes include a retrograde component).
- Dysmnesia (a more general term for impaired memory, less specific).
- Short-term memory: Often remains functional in anterograde amnesia, but information cannot be transferred to long-term storage.
- Consolidation deficit: The theoretical memory process (converting short-term to long-term memory) that is impaired in anterograde amnesia.
- Hippocampal damage: A common cause of this condition, as this brain region is crucial for memory formation.
A patient with anterograde amnesia cannot remember the doctor's name after being introduced.
- loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma