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Types of Amnesia
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Person invents new memories and believes they have a life that is not their own.
Confabulation
Loss of memory for events that occurred momentarily before an injury.
Post-Traumatic Amnesia
Loss of memory due to the ingestion of substances or following a medical procedure.
Drug or Alcohol-Induced Amnesia
Inability to form new memories after a traumatic event, although old memories may remain intact.
Anterograde Amnesia
Forgetting or displacing information that is traumatic or distressing.
Repressed Amnesia
Inability to remember information acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an accident or operation.
Retrograde Amnesia
Sudden, unexplained memory loss that is not attributable to other more common neurological conditions.
Dissociative Amnesia
Memory distortion phenomenon where a person recalls something that did not actually occur.
False Memory Syndrome
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