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AMNESIA

The term Amnesia refers to an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, which is too extensive to be explained by ordinary absent mindedness.

Anybody can be prone to amnesia, but people who are more susceptible to it are people with head injuries, people who drink excessive alcohol for a long period, and as people grow old they may show signs of some kind of amnesia.

 

TYPE OF AILMENT:

Amnesia can be of various types

• In Anterograde amnesia, new incidents are not transferred to long-term memory, so the sufferer will not be able to remember anything that occurs after the onset of this type of amnesia.
• Retrograde amnesia, when someone is unable to recall events that occurred before the onset of amnesia.
• Traumatic amnesia is normally due to a head injury. It is often temporary; the duration of the amnesia is related to the degree of injury.
• Long-term alcoholism may cause a type of memory loss known as Korsakoff's syndrome.
• Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific incident (why is there no full stop here? This needs to be consistent.)
• Fugue state is caused by psychological trauma and is usually temporary.
• Childhood amnesia which is(remove this and place “also known as infantile amnesia” in commas) also known as infantile amnesia is the inability to remember events from your childhood.
• Global amnesia is total memory loss which may be a defense mechanism that occurs after a traumatic event.
• Posthypnotic amnesia is when incidents during hypnosis are forgotten, or where past memories are unable to be recalled.
• Source amnesia is a memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information, but are unable to know (this doesn’t make sense, remove “unable to” and insert “do not know”) where or how they obtained it.
• Memory distrust syndrome is a state where someone is unable to trust their own memory.
• Aging - Many aging persons gradually develop difficulties in memory.

 

DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS:

The symptoms are:

• Long-term alcohol use can lead to amnesia, which is known as Alcoholic neuropathy.
• Heavy alcohol consumption combined with poor diet and small intake of thiamine leads to a partially reversible syndrome called Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome amnesia.

 

 

PROBABLE CAUSES:

A person could suffer from amnesia because:

• Injury in the brain
• Infection in the brain
• Tumour in the brain
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Dementia
• Certain metabolic diseases
• Emotional trauma

 

RISK TO OTHERS:

Hereditary conditions of amnesia can be passed on to the children.

RISK TO THE SUFFERER:

Complications in Amnesia could lead to Anoxia.

TREATMENT:

Medication, combined with counselling and a reminder system can improve the patient’s condition

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