Anterograde Amnesia

Anterograde amnesia refers to a decreased ability to retain new information. This can affect your daily activities. It may also interfere with work and social activities because you might have challenges creating new memories. Anterograde amnesia is a subset of amnesia.

 

Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W009
Diagnosis: Anterograde Amnesia
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Brain Area: hippocampus, temporal cortex, medial temporal lobe; Right hippocampus-spatial; left hippocampus-verbal
Symptoms:
Progression: No new declarative memories, may lose recent memories.Keep procedural memories.
Causes: drugs, brain injury, encephalitis inflammation, alcohol blackout
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