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What are some of the brain disorders that can result in amnestic disorders?
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Various types of dementia (such as Alzheimer's disease ), traumatic brain injury (such as concussion), stroke , accidents that involve oxygen deprivation to the brain or interruption of blood flow to the brain (such as ruptured aneurysms.
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