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Memory Loss

In the real world, memory loss is very common after a head injury. It can often continue long after regaining consciousness.

In space operas and the sim world, anything is possible.

Here are some basic real life terms for memory loss in Humans.....

Three Types of Memories - One way of looking at it

Type
Definition
Important Factors
Example Possible Tests

Immediate
Memory for things that last at about a max of 60 seconds
Attentiveness and consciousness
Repeating information back like an address or string of numbers. Repeat a string of numbers forward and backward.

Recent Memory for things that happend over a minute ago
-----------------
Being able to repeat back where several objects were hidden after ten minutes
Give four unrelated words or shapes and distract patient for ten minutes then ask what they were

Remote

Made from recent memories over months or years
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Naming a childhood friend
Ask questions relating to school, occupation, childhood

Three Types of Memories (Different Classification)

Type
Definition

Short-term memory
Memories that last from a few seconds to a couple of minutes

Intermediate long-term memory
Memories that may last for days or even weeks,can be lost forever or moved to long-term memory

Long-term memory
Memories that can be recalled for many years

Types of Amnesia

Type
Definition

Anterograde amnesia
(also called Post Tramatic Amnesia , PTA)
Memory loss prior to injury or disease

Emotional/hysterical amnesia
Memory loss caused by psychological trauma,c an be temporary

Lacunar amnesia Memory loss of a specific event

Posthypnotic amnesia
Memory loss sustained from a hypnotic state, can include events that occurred during hypnosis or information stored in long-term memory

Retograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories afer injury or disease

Ttransient global amnesia Spontaneous memory loss, can last from minutes to hours, can be temporary, can be caused by migraine, seizures in temporal lobe, transient ischemic attacks

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Type	Definition	Important Factors	Example	Possible Tests
Immediate	Memory for things that last at about a max of 60 seconds	Attentiveness and consciousness	Repeating information back like an address or string of numbers.	Repeat a string of numbers forward and backward.
Recent	Memory for things that happend over a minute ago	-----------------	Being able to repeat back where several objects were hidden after ten minutes	Give four unrelated words or shapes and distract patient for ten minutes then ask what they were
Remote	Made from recent memories over months or years	-----------------	Naming a childhood friend	Ask questions relating to school, occupation, childhood

Type	Definition
Short-term memory	Memories that last from a few seconds to a couple of minutes
Intermediate long-term memory	Memories that may last for days or even weeks,can be lost forever or moved to long-term memory
Long-term memory	Memories that can be recalled for many years

Type	Definition
Anterograde amnesia (also called Post Tramatic Amnesia , PTA)	Memory loss prior to injury or disease
Emotional/hysterical amnesia	Memory loss caused by psychological trauma,c an be temporary
Lacunar amnesia	Memory loss of a specific event
Posthypnotic amnesia	Memory loss sustained from a hypnotic state, can include events that occurred during hypnosis or information stored in long-term memory
Retograde amnesia	Inability to form new memories afer injury or disease
Ttransient global amnesia	Spontaneous memory loss, can last from minutes to hours, can be temporary, can be caused by migraine, seizures in temporal lobe, transient ischemic attacks