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: Mutia Larasati

Nama Korona : Psychiatry

AMNESIA

Amnesia is a general term that describes memory loss. The loss can be
temporary or permanent, but 'amnesia' usually refers to the temporary variety. type
of amnesia is anterograde amnesia and amnesia infantile. Anterograde amnesia
means that the person can't learn anything new, while retrograde amnesia means
the person forgets events from their past. In many mild cases, such as those
caused by concussion, the person can't recall the blow to the head or their
recovery time, but the rest of their memory is intact. Infantile amnesia, or the
inability to remember anything at all from the first few months or years of life, is
universal. It is thought that the memory processes of the brain take time to
develop.
The causes of amnesia may be organic or functional. Organic causes may
include brain damage, caused by trauma or disease, or use of drugs (typically a
sedative or tranquilizer). Functional cause is psychological factors, as well as an
ego defense mechanism. Amnesia may also occur spontaneously. This global type
of amnesia is common ranging in age from middle to old age, especially in men,
and usually lasts less than 24 hours. The effects of amnesia can last long despite
the amnesia condition has passed.
Amnesia happen not too complex, amnesia also occurs rapidly in patients.
Amnesia attack the nerve cells of the brain, so it does not have the ability to
recover well. However, damage to nerve cells is not permanent, the chances of
recovery of memory still produce satisfactory results. According to the data, many
patients said that patient changed from neurological conditions become
psychological condition, in which the patient loses self-confidence and confidence
in memories or memory of their own and things from past events. Therefore,
patients usually have problems with memory, such examples can not receive new
information and also have some weak rank of memory. The memory from past
like gone, but actually still there and stored unconsciously. Some of them can
remember the childhood experience or know the name of the previous president,
but can not remember the name of the current president or another example is they
don't remember if they had breakfast or not.
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003257.htm

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http://www.jpnn.com/read/2011/03/23/87607/Olahraga-Kurangi-ResikoAmnesia-