Retrograde amnesia

Retrograde amnesia
SpecialtyNeurology

In neurology, retrograde amnesia (RA) is the inability to access memories or information from before an injury or disease occurred.[1] RA differs from a similar condition called anterograde amnesia (AA), which is the inability to form new memories following injury or disease onset.[2] Although an individual can have both RA and AA at the same time, RA can also occur on its own; this 'pure' form of RA can be further divided into three types: focal, isolated, and pure RA.[3] RA negatively affects an individual's episodic, autobiographical, and declarative memory, but they can still form new memories because RA leaves procedural memory intact.[3] Depending on its severity, RA can result in either temporally graded or more permanent memory loss.[3] However, memory loss usually follows Ribot's law, which states that individuals are more likely to lose recent memories than older memories.[4] Diagnosing RA generally requires using an Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI) and observing brain structure through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a computed tomography scan (CT), or electroencephalography (EEG).[3][5][6]

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