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Definition of Retrograde amnesia
1. Noun. Loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma.
Definition of Retrograde amnesia
1. Noun. The loss of memories from the period leading up to the amnesic episode ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Retrograde amnesia
1. Amnesia in reference to events that occurred before the trauma or disease that caused the condition. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrograde Amnesia
Literary usage of Retrograde amnesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
""Alzheimer, in an article on retrograde amnesia in epilepsy, refers to the numerous
reports in the literature showing that after traumatism and hysterical ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"retrograde amnesia.—Hess discusses the subject of retrograde amnesia after attempts
at strangulation, and reports three cases. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"retrograde amnesia: Production of Skeletal but Not Cardiac Response Gradient by
Electroconvulsive Shock Abstract. Rats given a single electroconvulsive ..."
4. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1919)
"retrograde amnesia, loss of memory in the usual sense of forgetting ... There are
two forms of retrograde amnesia depending upon the aspect of memory ..."
5. Mental Pathology in Its Relation to Normal Psychology: A Course of Lectures by Gustav Störring (1907)
"JANET says of retrograde amnesia that it opposes the greatest difficulties ...
So in her case the retrograde amnesia—retrograde, that is, relatively to the ..."
6. Mental Pathology in Its Relation to Normal Psychology: A Course of Lectures by Gustav Störring, Thomas Loveday (1907)
"So in her case the retrograde amnesia—retrograde, that is, relatively to the ...
The circumstances are more complex when retrograde amnesia is developed ..."
7. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1921)
"retrograde amnesia, loss of memory in the usual sense of forgetting ... There are
two forms of retrograde amnesia depending upon the aspect of memory ..."
8. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1908)
"The question raised in my mind by the paper has special reference to the retrograde
amnesia. A case came under my care a few years ago with this symptom ..."
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