| The movies " Memento", "So far dates", "Finding | | | | processed permanently as memory. If |
| Nemo", "30 Rock", Ludachristmas" and recently | | | | hippocampus and medial temporal lobe of brain |
| the Bollywood's blockbuster hit "Ghajini" personified | | | | are vandalized the individual becomes incompetent |
| by Aamir khan prong towards an eminent brain | | | | to process new information however, the older |
| disorder -"Anterograde Amnesia". Frequently | | | | information before that injury remains unviolated. |
| tagged as "Short Term Memory Loss". The living | | | | Damage to hippocampus may also be mingled |
| soul Sanjay Singhania in the Bollywood movie | | | | with epilepsy, encephalitis, hypoxia, Alzheimer's |
| 'Ghajini' recollects his bygone memories but is | | | | disease. Short term memory loss can also occur |
| unable to reminisce his present. Such often | | | | by wrecking of the basal fore-brain. Alcoholics can |
| transpires with some persons who endure this | | | | also be afflicted from anterograde amnesia when |
| disorder. | | | | the BAC reaches above 0.25 percent usually |
| Anterograde amnesia or short term memory loss | | | | accompanied by hangover. |
| is a predicament that may crop up either through | | | | Reorganization of memory |
| brain injury or by certain drugs in which the | | | | Persons with anterograde amnesia show varying |
| individual is gravely enervated in learning new | | | | degree of forgetfulness. When only one side of |
| itemized information. Memories or events that | | | | medial temporal lobe is impaired there is |
| happened preceeding that injury prevails | | | | opportunity for normal functioning of memories. |
| unscathed but the events that occurred after | | | | Neural Plasticity can be a boon in this regard. |
| that injury are lost. Anterograde amnesia is | | | | remapping can help the patient to recover and |
| devastating to the person and his family. Person's | | | | become moer skilled at remembering.famous |
| adroitness for judgment and intelligence are not | | | | Cases |
| hampered. | | | | The most famous case for anterograde amnesia |
| Learning Afresh | | | | is that of a patient named Henry Molaison |
| Anterograde amnesics can perform their daily | | | | habitually called H.M. In 1957, H.M. under went |
| activities and may learn how to ride a bicycle, | | | | bilateral lobectomy in which both his medial |
| playing piano. The two elementary forms of | | | | temporal lobes were exterminated due to which |
| memory are declarative memory and procedural | | | | H.M. had bilateral impairment to both hippocampus |
| memory. Declarative memory is memory for | | | | and perirhinal cortex. He had a conventional IQ, |
| frequently encountered facts. declarative memory | | | | decent vocabulary but was unable to remember |
| is again subdivided into two types: Episodic | | | | new information. Every time he was taught of his |
| memory and semantic memory. Episodic memory | | | | mother's death, due to which he got filled with |
| is recollection of autobiographical facts while | | | | grief. H.M. remembered all those events that |
| semantic memory involves factual information. | | | | happened before lobectomy. H.M. provided doctors |
| Procedural memory is memory of schemes of | | | | an indication for short term memory loss. H.M. |
| events like how to tie your shoe lace, how to | | | | died in 2008 and till that he was used by doctors |
| brush your teeth etc. The declarative memory is | | | | as an experimental model for understanding |
| lost in short term memory loss. | | | | anterograde amnesia. |
| Causes | | | | At the moment there is no indemnity for the |
| Short term memory loss can manifest itself in | | | | restoration of anterograde amnesia. It is |
| two cases: by drugs of 'benzodiazepine' group like | | | | devastating, dangerous and can transfigure a |
| midazolam, diazepam etc. or by a traumatic brain | | | | person's life to dilapidation. Work on short term |
| injury where hippocampus or surrounding cortices | | | | memory loss is in ongoing stage we can simply |
| are damaged. Hippocampus is that area of brain | | | | hope that in the near future anterograde amnesia |
| through which information is passed before being | | | | can be antidoted. |