Definition of Amnesia and Types of Amnesia

Definition of Amnesia and Types of Amnesia

Definition of Amnesia

Amnesia is a sense memory loss diseases, which could take place in a short time and continues extension, especially it concerns the ideas should be expressed with words. Amnesia can also take place definitively (to be sure, not temporary), permanent and lost for ever.

Amnesia can partially lost from memory, but can also be total and can not be recalled. Sometimes amnesia could take place periodically or regularly. In the event of a concussion (commotio cerebri) and injury to the brain, amnesia is often the case.



Types of Amnesia

1. Retrograde Amnesia (Backward)
Retrograde amnesia is loss of memory of the event and all the things of which precede an accident. All impression of the past before the accident, so missing. This usually lasts a short / brief.

2. Anterograde Amnesia
Anterograde amnesia is loss of memory of events immediately after the accident occurred, which occurs after the shock, concussion or confusing time.

3. Auditorer Amnesia
Auditorer Amnesia is the inability to know the words spoken by other people, also known as deafness said.

4. Anterograde Amnesia
Anterograde amnesia is a perversion of memory, where new events taking place associated with the past, while the events of that long associated with the current time.

5. Tactile Amnesia
Tactile amnesia is the inability to recognize objects back through palpation, also referred to as asterognosis or astereocognosy.

6. Visual Amnesia
Visual Amnesia is a blind word, the inability to recall words written or unspoken or objects never seen before.