Total or partial loss of memory that can be associated with a dissociative disorder, brain damage, or hypnosis.
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Deficits in long-term memory that result from disease, brain injury, or psychological trauma. go to glossary index
A loss of, or gap in memory. See also, "cryptomnesia" and "hypermnesia."
Pathologic loss of memory; a phenomenon in which an area of experience becomes inaccessible to conscious recall.
a condition that affects an individual's ability to recall events, people, places etc.
the conscious forgetting of information. Having no conscious recollection of an experience or event.
The inability to recall certain memories.
A total or partial inability to recall past experiences.
The inability to recall significant events or other important information which is too extreme to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness; the absence of memory.
Lack of memory about events occurring during a particular period of time. See also: anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, post-traumatic amnesia.
Loss of memory. Rohypnol users may forget events that occurred for up to eight hours immediately after taking the drug.
Loss of memory caused by brain damage or by severe emotional trauma.
Inability to remember. Sometimes induced as a hypnotic technique that arranges for the subject to forget some or all aspects of a session or some other information.
loss or impairment of memory, whether psychogenic or due to cerebral disturbance.
A defect in memory, usually for a period of time or certain events. Anterograde amnesia is not remembering from the point of stress forward; retrograde amnesia is being unaware of events happening before the point of stress.
loss of memory or gaps in the memory.
Loss of memory function; short-term, longterm, or both; can be transient or lasting.
Loss of MEMORY (qv). Associated with head injury are RETROGRADE AMNESIA (qv) and POST-TRAUMATIC AMNESIA (qv). Amnesic patients may remember events long past perfectly well but are unable to remember recent events.
partial or total loss of memory about past events
Inability to recall past events, to complete loss of memory.
A partial or total loss of the ability to remember things which have been done or experienced before. (See post-traumatic amnesia and retrograde amnesia).
Partial or complete loss of memory. "Anterograde" amnesia is when people cannot form new memories.
the severe loss of memory and inability to learn. Amnesia may result from chronic alcoholism, brain tumour and encephalitis as well as brain trauma. There are three types of post-traumatic amnesia: retrograde, where the patient can remember facts after the trauma, but not for a period before; anterograde, where the events before the trauma are remembered, but facts following it are not; and global transitory amnesia, which lasts a short period of time and involves anterograde followed by retrograde amnesia.
(Reber) Generally, any partial or complete loss of memory.
impairment or loss of memory
Amnesia is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain (generally sedative) drugs. Functional causes are psychological factors, such as defense mechanisms. Hysterical post-traumatic amnesia is an example of this. Amnesia may also be spontaneous, in the case of transient global amnesia. This global type of amnesia is more common in middle-aged to elderly people, particularly males, and usually lasts less than 24 hours.
Loss of memory ( Ch. 29).
Partial or total loss of memory, usually as the result of psychological trauma or stress, or physical damage to the brain from injury, disease, or alcohol or other chronic drug abuse.
Amnesia or amnæsia (from Greek ) (see spelling differences) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain (generally sedative) drugs.