Jumping from the train and hitting his head, Polak forgets what he is actually doing there ( retrograde amnesia ), and tries to live up to his cover as an honest professor.
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"Retrograde amnesia is very common in cases like this, " said a leading American anesthesiologist, Ellison C . Pierce Jr ., former chairman of the anesthesia department at Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
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A detailed study comparing flurothyl and ECT in patients with severe endogenous depression, reported the degree of anterograde amnesia to be similar, but the degree of retrograde amnesia was much lower after flurothyl.
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His work on memory includes the description of relatively pure retrograde amnesia without anterograde amnesia, which in turn has led to the elucidation of the role of brain stem arousal mechanisms in memory.
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At the beginning of season two Alexis was in a coma, waking at the end of the season premiere with partial retrograde amnesia, not remembering the past two years or becoming a woman.
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"First of all, his injuries were so bad, he suffered anterograde and retrograde amnesia, " said Loftus, meaning that Rees-Jones lost his memory of time and events that occurred before and after the accident.
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At the hospital, Betty learns from Daniel that Alexis has partial retrograde amnesia, and has blanked out on the past two years-the last thing she remembers is their Mom's birthday party two years ago.
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Severe damage to the hippocampi in both hemispheres results in profound difficulties in forming new memories ( anterograde amnesia ) and often also affects memories formed before the damage occurred ( retrograde amnesia ).
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As far as his temporally graded retrograde amnesia is concerned, he was considered an anomaly; in other words, his ability to recall events prior to the accident was dependent on when those events occurred.
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As a result, Wearing developed both anterograde and retrograde amnesia, so he has little memory of what happened before the virus struck him in 1985, and cannot learn new declarative knowledge after the virus struck him either.
