Anterograde amnesia - Inability to remember ongoing events after the incidence of trauma or the onset of the disease that caused the amnesia. Emotional/hysterical amnesia (also known as fugue, dissociative, functional, or psychogenic amnesia) - Memory loss caused by psychological trauma; usually a temporary condition. Individuals may run away from familiar surroundings. Lacunar amnesia - Inability to remember a specific event. Korsakoff syndrome - Memory loss caused by chronic alcoholism Posthypnotic amnesia - Memory loss sustained from a hypnotic state; can include inability to recall events that occurred during hypnosis or information stored in long-term memory. Retrograde amnesia - Inability to remember events that occurred before the incidence of trauma or the onset of the disease that caused the amnesia. Transient global amnesia - Spontaneous memory loss that can last from minutes to several hours; usually seen in middle-aged to elderly people. Source: Stedmanβs Medical Dictionary
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