Amnesia

Amnesia - ămnēˈzhə, [Gr.,=forgetfulness], condition characterized by loss of memory for long or short intervals of time. It may be caused by injury, shock, senility, severe illness, or mental disease. Some cases of amnesia involve the unconscious suppression of a painful experience and everything remindful of it including the individual's identity Read More...

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The Amnesias: A Clinical Textbook of Memory Disorders
by Andrew C. Papanicolaou. 320 pgs.

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Contributors

1: Phenomena and Constructs

2: Putative Brain Mechanisms of the Various Memory Function

3: Age-Related Memory Decline

4: Amnesia Associated with Dementias

5: Semantic Amnesia

6: Limbic Amnesia

7: Traumatic Amnesia

8: Transient Global Amnesia

9: Transient Epileptic Amnesia

10: Electroconvulsive Therapy-Induced Amnesia

11: Psychogenic Amnesias

12: Notes for a Theory of Memory

Appendix of: Neuropsychological Tests

References

Index
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Human Memory and Amnesia (1980)
by Laird S. Cermak. 388 pgs.

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Human Memory and Amnesia

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Preface

1: Amnesia and Memory Research

2: General Forgetting Theory and the Locus of Amesia

3: The Long and Short of It in Amnesia

4: The Double Dissociation of Short- and Long-Term Memory Deficits

5: Performance Deficits in Short-Term Memory Tasks: a Comparison of Amnesic Korsakoff Patients and the Aged

6: Knowing and Remembering: Some Parallels in the Behavior of Korsakoff Patients and Normals

7: In Search of the Functional Locus of Amnesic Syndromes

8: The Amnesic Syndrome: a Deficit in Cue Utilization

9: The Episodic-Semantic Memory Distinction in Memory and Amnesia: Clinical and Experimental Observations

10: Theoretical Considerations regarding the Episodic-Semantic Memory Distinction

11: Storage Differences between Pictures and Words

12: Remembering Recent Experiences

13: Processes Underlying Failures to Recall Remote Events

14: Remote Memory, Retrograde Amnesia, and the Neuropsychology of Memory

15: Amnesia: a Minimal Model and an Interpretation

16: Multiple Dissociations of Function in Amnesia

17: Future Challenges

Author Index

Subject Index
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Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (Chap. Five "Vanishing Traces: Amnesia and the Brain" and Chap. Eight "Islands in the Fog: Psychogenic Amnesia")
by Daniel L. Schacter. 416 pgs.

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Daniel Schacter lets the public in on the developments made in understanding the way memories are stored and retrieved. With case studies he explains how past experiences influence the formation of new memories, and why memory changes with age.

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Introduction: Memory's Fragile Power

One: On Remembering "A Telescope Pointed at Time"

Two: Building Memories Encoding and Retrieving the Present and the Past

Three: Of Time and Autobiography

Four: Reflections in a Curved Mirror Memory Distortion

Five: Vanishing Traces Amnesia and the Brain

Six: The Hidden World of Implicit Memory

Seven: Emotional Memories When the Past Persists

Eight: Islands in the Fog Psychogenic Amnesia

Nine: The Memory Wars Seeking Truth in the Line of Fire

Ten: Stories of Elders

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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New Directions in Memory and Aging: Proceedings of the George A. Talland Memorial Conference (1980) (Chap. 24 "Neuropsychology of Amnesia: An Approach to the Study of Memory and Aging")
by Leonard W. Poon, James L. Fozard, Laird S. Cermak, David Arenberg, Larry W. Thompson. 592 pgs.

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Preface

George A. Talland

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Contributors to This Volume

Keynote: Memory and Age: a Perspective View

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Acknowledgment

I: Localization of Decline and the Role of Attention in Memory

1: Age Differences in Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval

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Acknowledgments

2: Age, and Memory: Strategies for Localizing the Loss

Conclusion

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3: Comments on the Processes That Account for Memory Declines with Age

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4: Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval in Adult Memory: the Role of Model Assumptions

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5: Age Differences in Memory: the Roles of Attention and Depth of Processing

Summary

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6: Attentional Dysfunctions and the Elderly: Theoretical Models and Research Perspectives

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7: Some Cautions We Might Exercise in Attributing Age Deficits in Memory to Attentional Dysfunctions

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8: Attention, Levels of Processing, and State-Dependent Recall

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9: Some Remarks on the Time-Course of Aging

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II: Age-Related Changes in Memory Processes

10: Iconic Memory and Attentional Processes in the Aged

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11: Echoic Memory and the Study of Aging Memory Systems

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12: Perceptual Processing Formeaning

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13: Periodic "Lapses" in Attentional Processes: a Possible Correlate of Memory Impairment in the Elderly

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14: Individual Age-Related Differences in Sensory Memory

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15: Memory and Mental Tempo

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16: Memory as a Processing Continuum

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17: Depth of Processing or Multiple Codes: an Explanation of Age-Related Decrements in Memory

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18: Age and the Actualization of World Knowledge

Summary

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19: Picture Naming: Retrieval and Activation of Long-Term Memon

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20: An Apparent Paradox About Memory Aging

Conclusions

21: Retrieval Efficiency, Knowledge Assessment and Age: Comments on Some Welcome Findings

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III: Testing and Mnemonic Strategies

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22: Clinical Memory Testing of the Elderly

Conclusion

23: Organic Implications of Neuropsychological Deficits in the Elderly

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24: The Neuropsychology of Amnesia: an Approach to the Study of Memory and Aging

Acknowledgments

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25: Potential Contributions of Neuropsychology to Our Understanding of the Memory Capacities of the Elderly

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26: Memory Skill Training for the Elderly: Salient Issues on the Use of Imagery Mnemonics

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27: Visual Memory and Imagery in the Aged

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28: Comments on Imagery as a Therapeutic Mnemonic

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29: Cognitive-Skill Training for the Elderly: Why Should "Old Dogs" Acquire New Tricks?

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30: Do Laboratory Tests Relate to Self-Assessment of Memory Ab in the Young and Old?

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Appendix

Epilogue: New Directions in Memory and Aging Research

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The Neurobiology of Memory: Concept, Findings, Trends (Chap. 15 "Amnesias, Further Clues to Our Memories")
by Yadin Dudai. 340 pgs.

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1. Some Basic Notions and their Ontogenesis 2. Paradigms and Research Tools 3. Biological Universals 4. Cellular Mnemonic Devices Detected in Relatively Simple Nervous Systems: the Case of Aplysia 5. Cellular Mnemonic Devices Detected in Relatively Simple Nervous Systems: The Case of Hermissenda 6. A Cellular Mnemonic Device in the Mammalian Brain: Long-Term Potentiation 7. A Different Approach: Neurogenetics 8. On the Life Span of Molecules and Memories 9. On the Complexity of International Representations 10. In Search of the Topography of Engrams 11. Fragments of Engrams and of Memory Systems in the Vertebrate Brain 12. The Establishment of Innately Predisposed Representations in Sensitive Periods: Imprinting 13. The Establishment of Innately Predisposed Representations in Sensitive Periods: Bird Song 14. The Generation of Complex Internal Representations by Sensory Impressions and Their Use: Lessons from Monkeys and Vision 15. The Generation of Complex Internal Representations by Sensory Impressions and Their Use: Amnesias, Further Clues to Our Own Memories 16. Epilogue

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Part I: The Conceptual and Experimental Framework

1: Some Basic Notions and Their Ontogenesis

2: Paradigms and Research Tools

3: Biological Universals

Part II: Windows to Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms

4: Cellular Mnemonic Devices Detected in Relatively Simple Nervous Systems: the Case of Aplysia

5: Cellular Mnemonic Devices Detected in Relatively Simple Nervous Systems: the Case of Hermissenda

6: A Cellular Mnemonic Device in the Mammalian Brain: Long-Term Potentiation

7: A Different Approach: Neurogenetics

8: On the Life Span of Molecules and Memories

Part III: Windows to the Architecture of Memory Systems

9: On the Complexity of Internal Representations

10: In Search of the Topography of Engrams

11: Fragments of Engrams and of Memory Systems in the Vertebrate Brain

12: The Establishment of Innately Predisposed Representations in Sensitive Periods: Imprinting

13: The Establishment of Innately Predisposed Representations in Sensitive Periods: Bird Song

14: The Generation of Complex Internal Representations by Sensory Impressions, and Their Use: Lessons from Monkeys and Vision

15: Amnesias, Further Clues to Our Own Memories

Epilogue

Further Reading

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Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders in Amnesia and Dementia, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Nelson Butters, Dean C. Delis, John A. Lucas. 31 pgs.

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Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found (Includes discussion of amnesia in multiple chapters)
by Lenore Terr. 304 pgs.

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1: Ringside Seats at an Old Murder

2: Expert Witness for the Prosecution

3: A Drunken Woman at the Side of the Road

4: The Silver at the Surface of the Water

5: The Two Miss Americas of 1958 and Her Sister

6: The Child Star's Tale

7: The Black Dahlia's Son

8: Searching for Corky

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The Neuropsychology of Degenerative Brain Diseases ("Amnesia in Korsakoff's Disease" begins on p. 69)
by Robert G. Knight. 351 pgs.

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Part 1: Assessment

Chapter 1: Assessing the Demienting Patient

Chapter 2: Neuropsychological Assessment

Part 2: Neuropsychological Research

Chapter 3: Korsakoft's Disease

Chapter 4: Alzhemer's Disease

Chapter 5: Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 6: Parkinsons Disease

Chapter 7: Huntington's Disease

Chapter 8: Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Subcortical Dementia, and Other Degenerative Diseases

Part 3: Psychosocial Aspects

Chapter 9: Caregiver Burden

Chapter 10: Conclusions: A Neuropsychosocial Model

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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The Handbook of Emotion and Memory: Research and Theory (Chap. 16 "Landmark Life Events and the Organization of Memory: Evidence from Functional Retrograde Amnesia")
by Sven-Ake Christianson. 528 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

I: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES

1: How Might Emotions Affect Learning?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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2: Emotion and MEM

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3: Emotion and Implicit Memory

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4: Memory, Arousal, and Mood: A Theoretical Integration

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II: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

5: The Implications of Arousal Effects for the Study of Affect and Memory

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6: Emotion, Arousal, and Memory for Detail

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7: The Influence of Affect on Memory: Mechanism and Development

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8: A Model of the Diverse Effects of Emotion on Eyewitness Memory

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9: Eyewitness Memory for Stressful Events: Methodological Quandaries and Ethical Dilemmas

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III: BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

10: Affect, Neuromodulatory Systems, and Memory Storage

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11: Emotion As Memory: Anatomical Systems Underlying Indelible Neural Traces

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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12: Biological Aspects of Memory and Emotion: Affect and Cognition

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13: Remembering Emotional Events: Potential Mechanisms

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IV: CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS

14: Memory, Emotion, and Response to Trauma

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15: Overcoming Traumatic Memories

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16: Landmark Life Events and the Organization of Memory: Evidence from Functional Retrograde Amnesia

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17: Remembering and Forgetting in Patients Suffering From Multiple Personality Disorder

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18: Clinical Anxiety, Trait Anxiety, and Memory Bias

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19: Autobiographical Memory and Emotional Disorders

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Memory Development between Two and Twenty ("Infantile Amnesia" begins on p. 2)
by Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley. 432 pgs.

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Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter 1: Memory Development Since We Wrote Last Time: Much Ado About Children's Autobiographical Memories

Chapter 2: A Brief History of Memory Development Research

Chapter 3: Basic Memory Capacities and Mechanisms

Chapter 4: The Knowledge Base

Chapter 5: Development of Encoding and Retrieval Strategies

Chapter 6: Metamemory

Chapter 7: Good Information Processing: A General Model, A Specific Example, and Comments on How to Do Research on the Development of Information-Processing Proficiency

Chapter 8: Is Good Strategy Use Possible?

Chapter 9: Conclusions

References

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Mechanisms of Everyday Cognition ("Early Memories and Amnesia" begins on p. 123)
by James M. Puckett, Hayne W. Reese. 257 pgs.

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Preface

I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

1: An Integration of Life-Span Research in Everyday Cognition: Four Issues

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II: TAXONOMY AND METHODOLOGY IN EVERYDAY COGNITION

2: What is Everyday Cognition?