What is amnesia?

amnesia is a brain disruption that causes a person to forget the period of his life. Although it is a popular conspiracy in movies and novels, this state in real life is quite rare. It has two basic causes: organic, where the brain is actually damaged and functional, where the causes are psychological. Memory loss can happen to everyone at any age.

There are a number of common types of amnesia:
• Traumatic amnesia is often temporary and happens after the head injury. The duration and intensity of memory loss is related to the type of injury, but memory often returns after the patient recovery.


• dissociative amnesia is common in people who experience traumatic events such as rape. While a person can remember everything about his life, a particular traumatic event is blocked from memory. Childhood amnesia is closely linked and includes toe to block childhood events, usually involving ZNeužíční or traumatic experiences.


• Global amnesia, the most complete type of memory loss, often accompanies post -traumatic stress disorder. While memory often does not return, the patient can sometimes experience spontaneous flash of memory, often traumatic events themselves. This type is most commonly seen in older people.


• Some physiological disorders such as long -term alcoholism, malnutrition and Alzheimer's disease may also cause memory loss.


• damage to time lobes of the brain usually leads to either anterograde amnesia, where new events cannot be remembered for more than a few minutes, or retrograde amnesia, where the person will not remember anything before the accident but is able to create new memories.

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• One of the most common types is the source amnesia in which one remembers information, but cannot explain how and when it has.

The most common treatment of functional amnesia is psychotherapy. Some experts also recommendedThey take hypnosis as a way to remember the patient of forgotten events. Exposure to people and people can sometimes help even cause past memories.

In patients suffering from organic amnesia, little can be done. The brain may eventually recover, allowing some memories to return. However, if the brain cells are permanently damaged, there is no way to return the clock back. Some degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, usually lead to permanent memory loss.