Explore: Retrograde Amnesia

In neurology, retrograde amnesia (RA) is the inability to access memories or information from before an injury or disease occurred. RA differs from a similar

precipitate the amnesia. Psychogenic amnesia as a memory disorder is controversial. Psychogenic amnesia is the presence of retrograde amnesia (the inability

extent of damage that is caused. There are two main types of amnesia: Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember information that was acquired before

memories from before the event remain intact. This is in contrast to retrograde amnesia, where memories created prior to the event are lost while new memories

of anterograde amnesia, or inability to acquire new knowledge. Focal retrograde amnesia (FRA), sometimes known as functional amnesia, refers to the presence

remember events or people from the past few minutes, hours or days (retrograde amnesia), and has working memory of only the past few minutes or less, and

typical of amnesia, the term "post-traumatic confusional state" has been proposed as an alternative. There are two types of amnesia: retrograde amnesia (loss

Patients had much improved. A positive side effect to the treatment was retrograde amnesia and it was because of this side effect that patients could not remember

Ribot's law of retrograde amnesia was hypothesized in 1881 by Théodule Ribot. It states that there is a time gradient in retrograde amnesia, so that recent

lesions were shown to have temporally ungraded (time-independent) retrograde amnesia that is resistant to recognition of a learned platform task only when