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Here is presented information about amnesia, its
causes and symptoms.
Amnesia Information
Amnesia refers to a condition in which the patient is subject to short-term memory loss. Inability to imagine the future is one of the after effects of amnesia. The major causes of amnesia include physical and functional factors. While the former causes dysfunction of the brain due to any kind of physical injury or by the ingestion of a toxic substance, the latter is based on psychological factors, like trauma or emotional incidents. Amnesia can affect anyone, men, women or child, and can occur at any age, though it is mostly seen in middle aged persons. Given below is a list of the causes and symptoms of amnesia.
Causes Of Amnesia
- Ageing
- Head injury, in which the brain gets damaged
- Deterioration of the brain cells, due to infections of the brain
- Drug abuse
- Traumatic incident
- Degeneration of brain cells
- Brain infections such as herpes, encephalitis, etc
- Severe emotional trauma and seizures
- Dementia
- Alzheimer's disease
- Certain metabolic diseases
- Brain tumor
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Lack of adequate oxygen in the brain
- Bleeding between the brain and skull
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Long-term alcohol abuse
- AIDS
- Migraine
- Stroke
- Hysteria
Symptoms Of Amnesia
- Impaired ability to learn new information, following the onset of amnesia (anterograde amnesia)
- Impaired ability to recall past events and previously familiar information (retrograde amnesia)
- False recollections (confabulation), either completely invented or made up of genuine memories misplaced in time
- Neurological problems, such as uncoordinated movements or tremors
- Confusion or disorientation
- Problems with short-term memory
- Partial memory loss
- Total memory loss
- Inability to recognize familiar faces or places
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