Amnesia word comes from the Greek, which is composed of a = not, and mnasthai = remember. Literally meaning amnesia can not remember. Amnesia is a condition in which a disruption in memory caused by organic disorders atapun functional. Amnesia Causes of disorders that are organic can be brain damage due to trauma, disease or resulting from the use of drugs. While the cause of the functional is a psychological factor. Amnesia can also occur spontaneously, transient global amnesia, which usually began to occur in middle age until old age. One effect of amnesia is the loss of the ability to think about the future. Latest research results published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that amnesia with damage to the hippocampus will result in loss of ability to imagine about the future. The loss of ability to imagine the future because patients experience memory loss amnesia about the past, but for normal people the memory of the past is an ingredient for her to construct a scenario of events that may be encountered in the future. There are two forms of amnesia, namely:
Anterograde amnesia: is a disruption of memory due to the loss of the ability to transfer information about a new event in the short-term memory into long-term memory is permanent. So for people, he can not remember any incident that recently occurred.
Retrograde amnesia: the disturbance of memory in the form of loss of ability to bring the memory of the past whose levels are higher than a commonly forgotten like a normal human experience.
Both forms of amnesia can occur simultaneously on the same one.
Anterograde amnesia: is a disruption of memory due to the loss of the ability to transfer information about a new event in the short-term memory into long-term memory is permanent. So for people, he can not remember any incident that recently occurred.
Retrograde amnesia: the disturbance of memory in the form of loss of ability to bring the memory of the past whose levels are higher than a commonly forgotten like a normal human experience.
Both forms of amnesia can occur simultaneously on the same one.
