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**[[Retrograde amnesia]]: The loss of [[memory]] prior to the [[onset]] of amnesia. Patient can form new [[memories]].
**[[Retrograde amnesia]]: The loss of [[memory]] prior to the [[onset]] of amnesia. Patient can form new [[memories]].
*Following are types of amnesia, these can features of anterograde, retrograde or both:
*Following are types of amnesia, these can features of anterograde, retrograde or both:
**[[Dissociative Amnesia]]
**[[Dissociative Amnesia]]: Temporary, episodic retrograde memory loss. Cause is usually psychological, patient is unable to recall a stressful or traumatic incident from the past. [[Dissociative fugue]] has been observed in these patients. [[Dissociative Amnesia]] is also called [[psychological]] amnesia.
**[[Post-traumatic Amnesia]]
**[[Post-traumatic Amnesia]]
**[[Infantile]] Amnesia
**[[Infantile]] Amnesia

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Zehra Malik, M.B.B.S[2]

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Amnesia can be divided into two broad groups, retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memory and retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory prior to the onset of amnesia.

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