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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… 
National Institutes of Health

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Narrower (8)

Amnesia, AnterogradeDissociative AmnesiaGlobal AmnesiaHysterical amnesia

Broader (4)

Memory DisordersMemory LossMemory impairmentMental disorders

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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… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Self-projection and the brain
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Paraneoplastic anti–N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitis associated with ovarian teratoma
To report the autoantigens of a new category of treatment‐responsive paraneoplastic encephalitis. 
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… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Memory, Amnesia and the Hippocampal System
damage which is so clearly presented in other textbooks, for example Jennett and Teasdale. Some chapters, at the other extreme… 
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… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
The cholinergic hypothesis of geriatric memory dysfunction.
Biochemical, electrophysiological, and pharmacological evidence supporting a role for cholinergic dysfunction in age-related… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
On the relationship between autobiographical memory and perceptual learning.
Although the majority of research on human memory has concentrated on a person's ability to recall or recognize items as having… 
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… 
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