Amnesia is loss of memory as a result of injury, shock, psychological disorder. Amnesia is a symptom rather than a disease, and treatment attempts to determine and remove the basic cause. No treatments available will bring back the memory capacity of brain-damaged patients.
Types of Amnesia
Anterograde Amnesia is a form of amnesia where new events are not transmitting to long-term memory.
Retrograde Amnesia refers to difficulties in recognizing or recalling past events and experiences.
Dissociative Amnesia is characterized by putting critical personal information out of mind, usually related to stressful or traumatic nature.
Infantile Amnesia refers to a person’s inability to recall events from early childhood. Infantile amnesia could be linked to language development.
Korsakoff’s psychosis deals with memory loss caused by alcohol abuse. The person’s immediate memory may be regular, but he will have severe problems in recalling a simple story, faces and complex patterns.
Traumatic amnesia refers to a loss of consciousness to coma caused by a severe road traffic accident.
Symptoms
One feels difficulty in learning new information and recalling past events. Besides it, general symptoms are headache, shock, depression, fever, chronic pain and fatigue.
Causes
Natural causes of amnesia include head injury, trauma, serious disease and excessive use of certain narcotic drugs. Weakness of mental power and of dullness of brain is also one cause of poor memory.
Amnesia in Fiction
Amnesia is recognized in many works of literature especially in fiction. In Japanese anime, amnesia is a regular discussing theme.
Famous George Orwell wrote a novel “A clergyman’s daughter†about complications developed by loss of memory. The novel “Mysterious Skin†depict Dissociative Amnesia is in a very critical and artistic manner.
In the novel “Mona Lisa Overdrive†by William Gibson, the character has several stress-related mantle sickness of chemically provoked Korsakoff’s syndrome.
In “Soldier in the Mist†by Gene Wolfe, the hero is soldier of orthodox Greece, suffers from anterograde amnesia.
Motion picture Mr. Buddwing (1966), the hero enters an amnesiac state (selective memory loss) in response to suffering in his marital relationship.
In film, The Forgotten (2004), the adults deal with memory loss about the existence of their children, who have been kidnapped by government.
Lacunars amnesia is characterized in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Based very Robert Ludlum’s novel, The Bourne Identity (2002) is a story of a man whose injured body is found by fisherman who looks after him and restored his loss memory and health also.
Several episodes of Saturday Night Live featured Tom Hanks starring in the recurring sketch “Mr. Short Term Memory“, where his character would almost immediately forget what he was doing or talking about, to humorous effect.
The psychological thriller film Memento (2000) characterized a man who suffered from anterograde amnesia after caused by a severe head injury.
Treatment
Amnesia is an indication of memory loss rather than a sickness and its cure management tries to find out and remove the basic cause. No treatments available will bring back the memory faculty of brain-damaged patient. But the Psychiatric therapy can be supportive for amnesia caused by emotional trauma.
The most significant medication for loss of memory is the use of the herbs like rosemary and sage. Tea made from these herbs is a refreshing drink and an effective natural remedy for activating mental liveliness. Almonds and walnuts are healthy dry fruits for restoring a poor memory. Apples are also useful and positive role. Ground black pepper, mixed with honey is also helpful in curing amnesia. Cow’s milk is particularly very beneficial and patient should drink cow’s milk as much as he can digest. Above there is need to make sure adequate rest and sleep under favorable environment is very essential.
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