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anterograde amnesia

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anterograde amnesia [′an·tə·rə‚grād am′nēzhə]
(medicine)
Loss of memory for the period subsequent to a sudden trauma or a seizure.


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Following the rape and murder of his wife, Leonard has lost the ability to make new memories, and apart from his life before that traumatic event--that his anterograde amnesia allows him to remember partly (selectively)--his world begins anew every 15 minutes.
A condition that prevents the victim of a traumatic injury from recording new or short-term memories, anterograde amnesia will gradually fade, say doctors.
 
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