Anterograde Memory
Overview
The ability form new memories after significant brain injury or psycho-trauma.
How to Assess
- Ask the patient to remember three words (colour, animal, object) and ask them to repeat them in five minutes.
Causes of Amnesia
- Intracranial - stroke, trauma, tumour, infection, epilepsy, degenerative disease
- Substances - intoxication, withdrawal, Korsakoff’s
- Psychiatric - schizophrenia, psychogenic amnesia
- Insufficiency - liver, heart, kidneys
- Hypoxia / anoxia
- Malingering
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