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Amnesia

How Amnesia Is Manifested



Global or generalized amnesia indicates the total loss of a person's identity: the individual has forgotten who she or he is. What makes this type of amnesia baffling is the fact that only personal memory is affected. The amnesiac does not remember who he or she is but displays no loss of general knowledge. A person suffering from retrograde amnesia cannot remember events that happened immediately before the trauma. In anterograde amnesia, all events following the trauma are forgotten. Finally, amnesia can also be selective, or categorical, manifested by a person's inability to remember events related to a specific incident.




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