Amnesia
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Impaired category fluency in medial temporal lobe amnesia: the role of episodic memory.

31 Aug 2009 Memory tasks are often classified as semantic or episodic, but recent research shows that these types of memory are highly interactive. Category fluency, for example, is generally considered to reflect retrieval from semantic memory, but behavioral ... Read more...

Brain targeting of nerve growth factor using poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles.

30 Aug 2009 The nerve growth factor (NGF) is essential for the survival of both peripheral ganglion cells and central cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain. The accelerated loss of central cholinergic neurons during Alzheimer's disease may be a determinant ... Read more...

Delaying interference enhances memory consolidation in amnesic patients.

30 Aug 2009 Some patients with amnesia are able to retain new information for much longer than expected when the time that follows new learning is devoid of further stimuli. Animal work shows that the absence or delaying of interference improves long-term ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Amnesia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Impaired category fluency in medial temporal lobe amnesia: the role of episodic memory. 31 Aug 2009
• Brain targeting of nerve growth factor using poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles. 30 Aug 2009
• Delaying interference enhances memory consolidation in amnesic patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Distinct hippocampal and basal ganglia contributions to probabilistic learning and reversal. 30 Aug 2009
• Thanks for the memories. 30 Aug 2009
• Amnesic shellfish poisoning toxin stimulates the transcription of CYP1A possibly through AHR and ARNT in the liver of red sea bream Pagrus major. 6 Aug 2009
• Comment on "Aphasic or amnesic status epilepticus detected on PET but not EEG". 30 Jul 2009
• Amyloid imaging in the prediction of Alzheimer-type dementia in subjects with amnestic MCI. 27 Jul 2009
• Conversion of amyloid positive and negative MCI to AD over 3 years: an 11C-PIB PET study. 6 Jul 2009
• [Dependence of atropin-induced amnesia fluctuations on the state of pineal gland] 29 Jun 2009
• Bilateral temporal glioma presenting as a paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis with pure cognitive impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Diffusion tensor imaging of the posterior cingulate is a useful biomarker of mild cognitive impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Word memory test performance in amnesic patients with hippocampal damage. 29 Jun 2009
• [Clinical standard of neurosurgical disorder (8). Amnesia] 29 Jun 2009
• Regional networks underlying interhemispheric connectivity: an EEG and DTI study in healthy ageing and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Performance benefits and costs in forced choice perceptual identification in amnesia: Effects of prior exposure and word frequency. 29 Jun 2009
• The brain collector. 24 Jun 2009
• White matter hyperintensities and medial temporal lobe atrophy in clinical subtypes of mild cognitive impairment: the DESCRIPA study. 16 Jun 2009
• Semantic memory activation in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. 8 Jun 2009
• [Neuronal mechanisms of associative food aversion conditioning reconsolidation in snail Helix lucorum] 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Amnesia'

Definition: Pathologic partial or complete loss of the ability to recall past experiences (AMNESIA, RETROGRADE) or to form new memories (AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE). This condition may be of organic or psychologic origin. Organic forms of amnesia are usually associated with dysfunction of the DIENCEPHALON or HIPPOCAMPUS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp426-7)

Descriptor UI: D000647

Alternative terms: Amnesia; Amnesias; Amnesia-Memory Loss; Amnesia Memory Loss; Amnesia-Memory Losses; Amnesia, Global; Amnesias, Global; Global Amnesia; Global Amnesias; Amnestic State; Amnestic States; State, Amnestic; States, Amnestic; Amnesia, Tactile; Amnesias, Tactile; Tactile Amnesia; Tactile Amnesias; Amnesia, Temporary; Amnesias, Temporary; Temporary Amnesia; Temporary Amnesias; Amnesia, Dissociative; Amnesias, Dissociative; Dissociative Amnesia; Dissociative Amnesias; Amnesia, Hysterical; Amnesias, Hysterical; Hysterical Amnesia; Hysterical Amnesias;

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Tree Number: C10.597.606.525.100; C23.888.592.604.529.100; F01.700.625.100; F03.087.200;