![]() ![]() Though the movie was fiction, it is a reflection of events that can happen in real life, and which have. Movie enthusiasts will recognize this form of amnesia from the popular film Fifty First Dates. When a person is unable to store and retain new information but is able to recall data and events that happened previously, it’s known as anterograde amnesia. They do not lose their implicit or procedural memory, which is what allows us to perform functions such as operating a cell phone or riding a bike. When people suffer from sudden memory loss, the memories that they lose are generally what are known as episodic or explicit – they forget events and facts. Where retrograde amnesia is a failure in the brain’s ability to retrieve information, anterograde amnesia is a failure in the ability to store information. It can be either retrograde, in which the person forget what happened before their memory loss, or anterograde in which they are no longer able to remember things that happen to them after. Sudden memory loss is more commonly referred to as amnesia. Read the full article below for the explanation. The major difference between retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia is the following: Retrograde amnesia is the inability to recall past memories while anterograde amnesia is the inability to create new memories. ![]()
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