Disaciative Amnesia

Retrograde Amnesia has pros and cons. Pros would be forgetting about bad ex’s and tragic events like rape or witnessing a murder. Not remembering were keys are or where you live would be a con. Retrograde Amnesia is recollection failure Derivative of neurological or psychological nature. Retro means recent past or before so the name really speaks for itself. Early signs for retrograde amnesia would be consistency of forgetting things that not so long ago happened or getting lost in places where you should have known were to be. Forgetting names like I myself sometimes forget might seem like a symptom but it’s not. People generally differ in their knowledge in degrees when it comes to factual information. However, if forgetting names of relatives

False memories are an apparent recollection of an event that did not actually occur. The reason why false memories happen are due to the fact that one's brains can only handle so much.There has been several experiment pertaining to the phenomenon, to find how it works.In the next part of the experiment the psychologist showed the participants a word list.False memories are very common and can happen to anyone. On very rare occasions false memories can be harmful to someone and the people around them.False memories are so common that they affect all of a person's memories. False memories can be made more clear by others memories or they could become more distorted. False memories have caused many wrongful convictions. A psychologist

Two of the consequences of sexual abuse that interest me the most is posttraumatic stress disorder and repressed memory. PTSD is known as an anxiety disorder that occurs in response to experiencing extreme stress (McCoy & Keen, 2014). The rates of PTSD vary among the type of sexual abuse that has occurred (McCoy & Keen, 2014). Victims of sexual abuse usually have to deal with PTSD. They have flashbacks of the terrible indicants, could happen randomly or be triggered by anything. Since the triggers could happen any time, it could prevent the person from prevent the person from being able to move on, which could stop them from living a successful and happy life. Another consequence of sexual abuse is repressed memory. Repressed memory is when the brain forces unacceptable thoughts, desires or memories into the unconscious (McCoy & Keen, 2014). This is done so the brain can protect itself. It takes a lot of energy for the brain to hide these memories and they can reappear caused by a trigger (McCoy & Keen, 2014). It makes

Hacker, J. S., & Pierson, P. (2016). American Amnesia: How the war on government led us to forget what made America prosper. Simon and Schuster.

The stage of skill acquisition in which a skill no longer relies on conscious effort is the:

Memory is defined as “the mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information” (American Psychological Association, 2002). It is a part of the means by which humans function. The process of forming and recalling memories involves various complex neurological processes and disruptions to these processes can result in loss of memory or the inability to form new memories. Amnesia is a memory disorder, in which, due to trauma or a head injury, certain parts of the memory is inaccessible. The two main types of amnesia are anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia refers to the inability to create new memories (Mastin, 2010). “Retrograde

Dissociative amnesia or any dissociative disorder is never came up in my life as a topic or any condition that I knew of, other than hearing about it in my previous psychology classes in high school, I have never had a personal connection to this mental illness and first-hand. The topic never interest me until I read it on the poster topics listed for this class, but I remember reading this disorder and I wondered how it was different from the simple amnesia that everyone is commonly aware of. After reading about it in the DSM-5 the night following I got my assignment topic I realized I did not have any other association or people close to me that had this mental disorder, I felt confident in contThe night after receiving my poster topic I

Dissociative amnesia is a dissociative disorder where one’s consciousness has been damaged by a traumatic event. A person with dissociative amnesia tends to block out information from a traumatic event. They’re unable to remember the event, even though the memory is still in the brain. Often times, the traumatic event can be remembered on its own or the memory of the event can be triggered from similar events the person had faced

This paper will discuss whether Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) is or is not induced by our sleep patterns and quality of sleep. Per the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM), Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) is defined as “a temporary memory loss characterized by an abrupt onset of anterograde (AGA) and retrograde amnesia (RA).” In other words, TGA occurs when there is a sudden occurrence of both Anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia at the same time. As defined by the JCSM, anterograde amnesia is “the acute inability to retain new information” and retrograde amnesia is “the significant reduction in the ability to recall past events. ” TGA has been known to last up to twenty-four hours. During the acute

It is estimated that up to two percent of the general population experiences dissociative disorders (NAMI). Dissociative disorders are characterized by a disconnection between thoughts, identity, consciousness and memory (NAMI). Dissociative disorders are not discriminative; people from all races and socioeconomic backgrounds can suffer from one. The symptoms of this disease usually develop as a way to deal with a traumatic event and can be worsened during stressful situations. Although, the symptoms one may experience can differ based upon which dissociative disorder they have. Treatment for dissociative disorders often involves psychotherapy and medication. Though finding an effective treatment plan can be difficult, many people can live

What is Alzheimer’s? Alzheimer’s is one of the most devastating forms of memory loss. It slowly destroys memory loss and thinking skills. It affects as many as five million Americans. There is no cure as yet for this disease. Scientific research is gaining momentum to discovering ways to treat and possibly preventing Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s research community welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with HBO seeking to raise new awareness and understanding of this devastating disease. In the two films “Advances in Brain Imaging” and “Identifying Mild Cognitive Impairment” it gives some information on how Alzheimer’s attacks the brain and what they plan on doing to prevent this disease.

Retrograde amnesia is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before the injury of the diagnosis of the disease. The writer of this article goes through some of the factors of which he knows and thinks are important in explaining functional deficits associated with retrograde amnesia. I will be focusing on a few which are Functional Domains, Time of Onset, and Patients Age.

Short Term Memory Loss. Ironically most of us don’t even think about memory that often, much less Short Term Memory. Because of that, this psychological disorder often tends to get overlooked for a small problem that no one wants to take serious. Most people would recognize this disorder from the popular movie, Finding Nemo. In which one of the main characters suffers from short term memory loss. In the film it’s taken as a lovable flaw, instead of the serious disorder that it is. But Short Term Memory is a lot more than one disorder found in a character in a movie. It is a somber disorder that could happen to any of us. This paper will be going through the gravity of this disorder and the causes to its victims.

An Article Review of “Memory blindness: Altered memory reports lead to distortion in eyewitness memory” by Cochran et al. (2016)

: I can’t remember any things well while I thought something happened to me, I feel like I ever seen something but I don’t know when it was or where it was. And I also feel like I’ve been somewhere but I don’t know when it was. It’s only like I ever do that but I unable to really remember when and how the earlier experience occured in detail.