For Amnesia we have terms and definitions in 3 topics. The topics are Human Body, Mental Health and Nutrition.

Amnesia (Human Body)

the severe loss of memory and inability to learn. Amnesia may result from chronic alcoholism, brain tumour and encephalitis as well as brain trauma. There are three types of post-traumatic amnesia: retrograde, where the patient can remember facts after the trauma, but not for a period before; anterograde, where the events before the trauma are remembered, but facts following it are not; and global transitory amnesia, which lasts a short period of time and involves anterograde followed by retrograde amnesia.

Amnesia (Mental Health)

Pathologic loss of memory; a phenomenon in which an area of experience becomes inaccessible to conscious recall. The loss in memory may be organic, emotional, dissociative, or of mixed origin, and may be permanent or limited to a sharply circumscribed period of time. Two types are distinguished:

Amnesia (Nutrition)

Memory loss.

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