| Amnesia is a condition which can define by | | | | |
| the loss of memory which can last for two | | | | * Severe illness |
| hours or sometimes two months or more. This | | | | |
| loss of memory can be due to some disturbing, | | | | * High fever |
| appalling, psychological experience or brain | | | | |
| injury or emotional chain of events. There | | | | * Seizures |
| are different reasons and causes of amnesia | | | | |
| such as organic or functional. Organic | | | | * Emotional shock or hysteria |
| amnesia is caused due to damage to your brain | | | | |
| by external factors which can be due to | | | | * Alcohol-related brain damage |
| physical reasons like trauma or disease. | | | | |
| Functional amnesia is due to psychological | | | | * Drugs |
| factors. | | | | |
| | | | * Stroke |
| There are different types of Amnesia | | | | |
| | | | * Alzheimer's disease |
| Anterograde amnesia - In this kind of amnesia | | | | |
| the patient loses all its senses and is far | | | | * Brain surgery |
| away from remembering the current events | | | | |
| after the trauma or disease affected the | | | | The common factor in all the above causes is |
| patient. | | | | that it has affected the brain in some or the |
| | | | other manner. As there is damage to the brain |
| Emotional/hysterical amnesia - This can be | | | | cells and deterioration of cells causes the |
| said as the temporary condition which wont be | | | | loss of memory. Brain injury can happen due |
| lasting for a long time and is basically | | | | to some berserk car accident or due to some |
| caused by psychological trauma. | | | | fall or a blow on your head. Alzheimer |
| | | | sufferers are the worst hit with memory loss |
| Lacunar amnesia - This state of amnesia | | | | as it is the first thing which the disease |
| creates a blockage in your mind for a | | | | hits upon. Firstly they would loose memory on |
| specific event. | | | | the current events and later in the advanced |
| | | | stages of Alzheimer the long term memory is |
| Korsakoff syndrome - This is caused due to | | | | affected. |
| the constant intake of alcohol and can also | | | | |
| be said as the state of alcoholism. | | | | Amnesia can be prevented when all kind of |
| | | | brain damages are avoided and prevented. This |
| Posthypnotic amnesia - This kind of amnesia | | | | would mean all the common sense precautions |
| is due to the prolonged hypnotic state which | | | | should be taken which would lead to damage |
| keeps your mind unfit to remember the events | | | | to your brain such as wearing helmet, using |
| which happened during hypnosis as well as | | | | seat belt as well as avoiding the use of |
| information have been part of your long-term | | | | alcohol and drugs. A healthy and fit body |
| memory. | | | | will have less of damages due to strokes or |
| | | | seizures which occur due to the blockages in |
| Retrograde amnesia - It is a sequence of loss | | | | your heart. This happens due to improper diet |
| events which took place before the onset of | | | | and your body being treated as a junkyard of |
| trauma or disease causing amnesia. | | | | junk food. |
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| Transient global amnesia - This kind of | | | | Treatment of amnesia depends upon the cause |
| amnesia occurs to people who are middle-aged | | | | of amnesia and on that basis diagnosis is |
| or elderly and it is short term memory loss | | | | done. If it is a brain injury due to some |
| lasting for few minutes. | | | | physical causes like accident or fall then it |
| | | | has to be treated immediately by the doctor. |
| Causes of Amnesia | | | | Emotional trauma can be cured or helped |
| | | | through psychotherapy. Hypnosis has played an |
| There are many reasons which can be the cause | | | | active role in getting people's memory back. |
| of amnesia and these are some of them | | | | Medicines have been an important factor in |
| | | | helping people out. |
| * Head injury | | | | |