Remote memory includes autobiographical memory and memory for public events and famous people. Amnesia for public events can be associated or not with deficits in autobiographical memory, and anterograde amnesia. It could extend on various periods of time and involve all or only parts of remote memory. We present a short version (EVE-10) of a previous 30-item scale (EVE-30), assessing memory fo...

Low, nonsedative doses of γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) produce short-term anterograde amnesia in humans and memory impairments in experimental animals. We have previously shown that acute systemic treatment of GHB in adolescent female rats impairs the acquisition, but not the expression, of contextual fear memory while sparing both the acquisition and the expression of auditory cued fear memory....

This paper first reviews the anatomical, pathological, and neuropsychological evidence implicating the anterior thalamic nuclei in memory processes. It is concluded that there is much indirect evidence indicating that anterior thalamic dysfunction is an important factor in anterograde amnesia. More direct evidence for the involvement of the anterior thalamic nuclei in memory processes emerges f...

Dissociative disorders (DD) are described and defined both in the diagnostic system of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM IV-R) and in the World Health Organization (ICD 10). Regarding the particular case of cognitive processes related to memory, it is possible that memories are not integrated properly, resulting in a condition called "dissociative amnesia" (DA). This illness has been de...

-Tests of new learning capacity and remote memory were given to the chronic amnesic patient (N.A.) who sustained a stab wound to the basal brain in 1960. N.A.‘s persisting defect in new learning was demonstrated with several tests, including a distractor test of short-term memory. These results are discussed in the light of previous findings in amnesic patients with distractor tests. N.A.‘s rem...

A test of socially acquired food preferences was used to study the effects of large lesions to the hippocampal formation (HPC) on anterograde and retrograde memory in rats. In the anterograde test, rats with HPC lesions normally acquired the food preference but showed a faster rate of forgetting than control groups. When the food preference was acquired preoperatively, HPC groups exhibited a te...

Memory and learning are considered as the most complicated and important processes of behavioral sciences. On the other hand, considering the wide .and progressively increasing applications of anesthetic agents all over the world, it is of great importance to have a reasonable knowledge regarding their effects on the memory process and its retrieval. The main purpose of this study was to evalua...

Background Transient global amnesia (TGA) is the prototypical neurologic disease for acute-onset reversible amnesia. It currently defined by resolution of symptoms within 24-hours. In this case report we describe an atypical prolonged TGA, emphasizing our current lack knowledge surrounding entity and its pathophysiology. Results A 66-year old female presented acutely with profound anterograde v...