Amnesia

Known as: Memory Loss, dysmnesia, Amnesia [Disease/Finding] 
Pathologic partial or complete loss of the ability to recall past experiences (AMNESIA, RETROGRADE) or to form new memories (AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE… (More)
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2017
Review
2017
Dysregulation of neuronal calcium homeostasis in Alzheimer's disease - A therapeutic opportunity?
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the disease of lost memories. Synaptic loss is a major reason for memory defects in AD. Signaling… (More)
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Review
2016
Review
2016
Neurosteroidogenesis Today: Novel Targets for Neuroactive Steroid Synthesis and Action and Their Relevance for Translational Research.
Neuroactive steroids are endogenous neuromodulators synthesised in the brain that rapidly alter neuronal excitability by binding… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences.
Amnesic patients have a well established deficit in remembering their past experiences. Surprisingly, however, the question as to… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
The long and the short of it: relational memory impairments in amnesia, even at short lags.
Classic studies of amnesia led to characterizations of hippocampal function emphasizing involvement in long-term memory rather… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Social amnesia in mice lacking the oxytocin gene
The development of social familiarity in rodents depends predominantly on olfactory cues and can critically influence… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Amnesia is a deficit in relational memory.
Eye movements were monitored to assess memory for scenes indirectly (implicitly). Two eye movement-based memory phenomena were… (More)
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Review
1999
Review
1999
Episodic memory, amnesia, and the hippocampal-anterior thalamic axis.
By utilizing new information from both clinical and experimental (lesion, electrophysiological, and gene-activation) studies with… (More)
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Probabilistic classification learning in amnesia.
Amnesic patients and control subjects participated in a study of probabilistic classification learning. In each of three tasks… (More)
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory: applications to dementia and amnesia.
This article has two purposes. The first is to describe four theoretical models of yes-no recognition memory and present their… (More)
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Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Preserved learning and retention of pattern-analyzing skill in amnesia: dissociation of knowing how and knowing that.
Amnesic patients acquired a mirror-reading skill at a rate equivalent to that of matched control subjects and retained it for at… (More)
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