{"id":230,"date":"2019-01-16T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T10:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/time\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2019-01-16T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T10:43:03","slug":"about-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/time2site\/about-amnesia\/","title":{"rendered":"About Amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of people experience lapses of memory from time to time as, at worst, an irritating feature of daily life. The most common experience of memory loss involves forgetting a single word, alleviated by a pertinent cue. These lapses are generally brief. Amnesia is a profound and sometimes permanent memory loss.<\/p>\n<p>There are two forms of amnesia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Retrograde Amnesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refers to the inability to recall memories prior to the onset of the amnesia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anterograde Amnesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refers to the inability to recall memories subsequent to the onset of the amnesia<\/p>\n<p>Amnesia is usually caused by damage to the limbic system which includes the hippocampus and the amygdala. Not all people with amnesia experience a permanent loss of memory. Some people experience amnesia which has a sudden onset but is time limited. This is the syndrome of transient amnesia.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the TIME project is the syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia which is often misdiagnosed as either <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/time\/about-amnesia\/transient-global-amnesia\/\">transient global amnesia<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/time\/about-amnesia\/psychogenic-amnesia\/\">psychogenic amnesia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of people experience lapses of memory from time to time as, at worst, an irritating feature of daily life. The most common experience of memory loss involves forgetting a single word, alleviated by a pertinent cue. These lapses are generally brief. Amnesia is a profound and sometimes permanent memory loss. 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