Overview
Transient global amnesia is a condition in which a person experiences a sudden temporary incident of memory loss that cannot be explained by another neurological condition like a stroke or epilepsy. It hinders the ability to recall recent events, leaving the person unaware of where they are or how they got there. Additionally, they might not remember what is happening in the present moment. They could forget answers that were given to recent questions or be unable to recall events that occurred at a specific time.
This form of amnesia does not affect the ability to recognize familiar people or remember one’s own name. However, it does not make its occurrence any less unnerving. Fortunately, it is a rare condition that does not appear to cause any significant harm and is unlikely to recur. Transient global amnesia does not last very long, and memory returns to normal afterwards.
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Other factors that might trigger transient global amnesia include strenuous physical activity, medical procedures, acute emotional stress, sudden exposure to hot or cold water, and mild head
* Forgetfulness, maybe forgetting names of people that you have been in contact with every day, or forgetting what you did just hours or days ago.
During an average lifetime, one can expect to have at least occasional memory lapses from time to time. Usually it's something as simple as forgetting what you just did a few minutes ago, forgetting if you turned the stove off, or if you left your keys on the table or in the bathroom counter. Such lapses are relatively normal, but when they become a recurring theme, it's a more serious problem.
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Short-term memory changes: can remember long ago event that happened, but not what they had for breakfast, where they left an item, why they went in to a particular room, forgetting what they're doing.
* Tip- of-the-tongue phenomenon- when you know certain information but have difficulty being able to recall it.
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
A fifty-five year old man is suffering from transient global amnesia. Which of the following would be the most difficult for him to remember?
Clive Wearing developed one of the worse cases of amnesia such as, anterograde amnesia (Human Memory,2010). Retrieved from http://www.human-memory.net/disorders_anterograde.html . Anterograde amnesia is a type of disorder that is followed from damage to a region of your brain called hippocampus (Human Memory,2010). Retrieved from http://www.human-memory.net/disorders_anterograde.html. It is known to be part of the brain that creates new memories. Consequently, the brain stops creating new memories (Human Memory 2010) Retrieved from
Some scientists believe that parts of long term memory are permanent while others will eventually weaken over time. (3) Long term memory can be divided into three sections: procedural memory, declarative memory, and remote memory. Procedural memory includes motor skills such as learning how to ride a bike or how to drive a car. "Such memories are slow to acquire but more resistant to change or loss." (4) Declarative memory is used to remember facts, such as names, dates and places. It is easy to learn but also easy to lose. Finally there is episodic memory, which is the record of events that a person stores throughout his or her experience. Recent studies show that these events, as soon as they occur, are sent to a temporary part of the brain called the hippocampus, and that over time they are moved to the neocortex for permanent storage. (5).
There are two prominent distortions of the episodic memory system: forgetting and the false memory effect. False memory is the propensity to report an event as part of an episodic experience that was not actually present (Holliday, Brainerd, & Reyna, 2011). Several theories give an explanation for this effect, but the most prominent one is the fuzzy trace theory,
Anterograde amnesia refers to a memory deficit from brain injury that prevents patients to store new informations in their short term memories. The patients show normal memories for events that occurred before the injury but has severely impaired ability to recall information about events that occurred after the incident. Anterograde amnesia is reflected in the movie “50 first dates” through the main character, Lucy Whitmore, whose memory lasts only a day because her memory stopped on the day of car accident. (additional description) The movie, “50 first dates,” contains valid depiction of anterograde amnesia yet it also contains some dramatic points that is far from reality.
An Article Review of “Memory blindness: Altered memory reports lead to distortion in eyewitness memory” by Cochran et al. (2016)
This isn’t even a real condition; however, Barrymore’s symptoms match a real form of amnesia called “anterograde amnesia”. This is surprisingly part of the film that contains some accuracy in terms of psychology. With this type of amnesia, it’s typically caused when a person has some kind of brain damage to a portion of the brain that is partially responsible for the storage of memory. The brain is essentially “stuck in time”. The brain is not able to encode new memories and store those memories. Living with anterograde amnesia would need to be hospitalized so they can be closely monitored. In this movie the character has permanent brain damage sustained from a car accident. She lost the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia (short term memory loss), however her long-term memories from before the event remain
: 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.
Without the hippocampus, the information from the short-term memory (STM) cannot be stored in long term memory (LTM). The hippocampus is a very important part of the human brain to store our memories. If we lost it, we will lose all our conscious memories. From Henry’s case, it also discovered that there are multiple memory storage areas located at different parts of the brain while the hippocampus is important to consolidate short-term memory to long-term memory. The removal of hippocampus caused Henry to suffer until he died as he lost the ability to make new conscious