In neurology, anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.
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Finally, anterograde amnesia can be the first clinical sign that Alzheimer's disease develops in within the brain.
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Anterograde amnesia can be caused by alcohol intoxication, a phenomenon commonly known as a blackout.
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Alcohol-related anterograde amnesia is directly related to the rate of consumption of alcohol, and not just the total amount of alcohol consumed in a drinking episode.
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Test subjects have been found not to experience Anterograde amnesia when drinking slowly, despite being heavily intoxicated by the end of the experiment.
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Easton and Parker reported MRI scans of patients with severe anterograde amnesia showed damage beyond to cortical areas around the hippocampus and amygdala and to surrounding white matter.
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Patients with anterograde amnesia have trouble recalling new information and new autobiographical events, but the data are less consistent in regard to the latter.
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Anterograde amnesia was the first well-documented case of severe anterograde amnesia, and was studied until his death in 2008.
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Therefore, despite anterograde amnesia preventing Wearing from learning new bits of information that can be explained in words, and preventing him from storing new memories of events or episodes, he has little trouble in retaining his musical abilities, though he has no conscious memory of having learned music.
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Anterograde amnesia performed better on consecutive tests over a 12-week period.
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Anterograde amnesia carries this journal around everywhere he goes as a substitution to his memories, and uses what is written in the notebook to become aware each time he wakes up of the fact that he has his condition, what the current date apparently is, and everything important that have apparently occurred on every day since he first developed the condition.
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