Amnesia

Amnesia

1. Memory

   • Working memory
     • Kept by amnesiacs
   • Long term memory
   • False Memories
   • Recovering Memories
   • Episodic memory
     • Impaired by amnesiacs
   • Semantic memory
   • Procedural memory
   • Implicit memory

2. Causes

   • Damage to the hippocampus
   • Epilepsy
     • Patient HM
   • Removal of medial temporal lobes
     • anterograde memory impairment
     • retrograde memory impairment

3. a deficit of consolidation