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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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There are two types of amnesia: retrograde amnesia (loss of memories that were formed shortly before the injury), and anterograde amnesia (problems with creating new memories after the injury as taken place).
Brain Injury Post Traumatic Amnesia - Neuropsychological Problems by N Glover / Food/cooking/nutrition community
By contrast, Call the Shots has a chorus that only anterograde amnesia could wipe from your brain, but its structure and production seem a bit commonplace coming from the people who made Biology, an audacious three-minute pop single on which the chorus didn't turn up for a full two minutes.
Girls Aloud, Tangled Up by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
16) Anterograde amnesia is a deficit in forming new memory after the injury ("do you remember being evaluated after the injury?
Concussion in athletes by Terrell, Thomas R. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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