What is retrograde amnesia?

Retrograde amnesia is a temporary or permanent forgetting of things that occur before the event where amnesia was caused, which is often some kind of brain damage. This form of amnesia could cover a small or large part of a person's life, and in serious forms it could include the inability of Amnesiac to recognize loved ones or remember how to do things in which the expert was. It usually does not mean that it will forget everything and also may not be fully prolonged by a person's life. Some people may have a slight retrograde amnesia and simply do not remember the events of several hours of previous events, resulting in amneziak.

There are many forms of amnesia, but retrograde amnesia is often contrasted with anterograde amnesia. The latter is when people have difficulty remembering things after some form of trauma or for some treatment such as treatment of therapy. They could have complete memories of all events before the event affecting memory or some people are experiencing retroGrádní and anterograde amnesia at the same time. In other words, memory before and after trauma or treatment is to some extent disturbed.

The causes of retrograde amnesia are generally attributed by injuries in the brain, especially hippocamp and less specifically temporary lobes. The ability of a person to recover from such damage to a large extent depends on how well these regions can heal, and in serious cases, recovery is not always predictable. For this condition there is no one or standard treatment, although many treatments could be an attempt to help a person regain their memory. The most important, however, makes everything to promote brain healing to prevent damage to the areas of the brain that appear most associated with memory.

Sometimes very mild retrograde amnesia occurs and does not require treatment. One can have the head of injeura and lose a few hours before the incident. Yet almost all other memoryž remains intact. In these cases, head injuries are clearly treated, but it would not try to get memories of an hour or two before the head injury, unless it was somehow important.

Similarly, some drugs administered as anesthesia may lead to mild amnesia before their administration. People do not have to remember that they will be on the contrary to the operating room or talk to the family just before surgery. This is not always retrograde amnesia. If a person for pain or anesthetic medicines was before the operating room, these drugs may be responsible for changing memory.