PSYCH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anterograde Amnesia, Encephalitis, Frontal Lobe
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Doctors removed part of hippocampus to dec seizures. After surgery, couldn"t remember his own family. Could remember events before surgery, but unable to form memory for new events. Ex: could read a book multiple times and not remember a thing about it. Loss of hippocampus anterograde amnesia: unable to form new memories. Could barely retain info for ~15 min (short-term memory) Developed encephalitis (swelling of the brain due to infection) and lost all memory. Retrograde amnesia: lost memory of past events. Anterograde amnesia: inability to form new memories.
