Amnesia can impact memory recall, the formation of new memories, and independence. Learn about its types, causes, symptoms, ...

Dissociative amnesia causes memory loss, often due to severe stress or trauma. People may not remember important information about themselves or things that have happened to them. For example ...

Childhood amnesia, was Freud right? Amnesia is a term used to cover the partial or complete loss of memory. It's usually associated with either physical trauma such as a blow to the head or some ...

Specifically, diagnosis is based on brief loss of consciousness, amnesia surrounding the traumatic event or posttraumatic amnesia, minor and transient focal neurological changes in sensation or ...

A severe TBI is a term used when a person experiences an extended period of unconsciousness (coma) or amnesia following trauma. A severe TBI may lead to a wide range of short- or long-term changes in ...

This special issue takes as its focus the topic of memory and its cognates, amnesia and commemoration. Memory has witnessed a remarkable efflorescence in the past few years, both in scholarly work in ...

Amnesia, or abnormal memory loss, can also result from a range of other medical conditions, sudden brain injury, substance use, or in reaction to a traumatic event. Dementia is a progressive loss ...