Amnesia

Question 1

2 different amnesia

Answer 1

Anterograde amnesia(a memory condition that means new long-term memories cannot be made; this is typical caused by injury to the brain)

Retrograde amnesia (a memory condition that affects recall of memories prior to an injury to the brain)

Question 2

Amnesia definition

Answer 2

Memory loss, often through accident disease or injury.

Question 3

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 3

• Inability to store any new long- term memory following a brain injury
• intact short - term memory
• can process sensory information in moment of time
• unable to lay down any new memories that last beyond a few memories
• ability to transfer STM to LTM is damaged
• can retain memory from before injury

Question 4

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 4

• Cannot remember information from before brain injury
• can be specific to one memory
• people can forget who they are, and where they ore from in some cases
• possible for people to regain some or all of their lost memory

Question 5

Henry molaison

Answer 5

• underwent brain surgery to relive seizures
• hippocampus was damaged during surgery
• suffer from anterograde amnesia so he could not lag down memories
• Suffered from retrograde amnesia as he could recall childhood events but lost ability to recall few years before his surgery