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How can you remember how to speak English if you have amnesia?
Amnesia usually effects a certain part of the brain that contains personal information, recent memories, etc... The language center of your brain is in a different part, and is usually uneffected.
What is Amnesia caused by?
Amnesia can be caused by head injuries, brain disease, or epilepsy, as well as by dissociation
Damage to the can result in anterograde amnesia?
Yes. Antegrade amnesia is the loss of memory relates to events that occur after a traumatic event. There is inability to recall new information. Old information can be recalled. Antegrade amnesia may follow brain trauma. This type of amnesia is in contrast to retrograde amnesia in which the lack of memory relates to events that occurred before a traumatic event.In the very center of your brain is a little piece that is called the hippocampus.This is the area that deals with converting short-term memories to long-term memories. Your brain issort of a mirror image of itself, meaning you have part of your hippocampus on one side and part on the other side. Damage to only one side would mean your amnesia is not as bad. Anterograde amnesia most often occurs when there is damage to the hippocampus. This usually happenswith a traumatic brain injury, in which the brain inside its skull casing is shaken up really hard.
How can amnesia affect your lifestyle?
memory
What does dissociative amnesia affect?
memory
How does the distance formula affect your brain?
It stimulates the processing part of your brain.
What part of the brain does hypoxemia affect?
Hypoxemia (low oxygen levels in the blood) will affect the entire brain.
Is Amnesia genetic?
No, it is not genetic because Amnesia is usually caused by a blow to the head, stokes, brain inflammation, lack of adequate amount of oxygen to the brain, long-term alcohol abuse, tumors in areas of the brain that controls memory, degenerative brain disease, and ingestion of toxic substances that harm brain.
Can you get amnesia by locking yourself in a room for 2 days without food or water?
It actually depends on what you do in the room. If you just sit there, or do other exercises and whatnot that doesn't harm yourself, then you can't get amnesia. If you bang your head against the wall, ram your head into a wall, or beat yourself over the head with a stick or other object, then you could possibly develop amnesia. Amnesia derives from damage to parts of the brain, which often is affecting the limbic system, which is the part of the brain that controls memory recall. Without food or water, you might just get dizzy, or faint, but not develop amnesia, since amnesia derives from damage to specific parts of the brain (the parts that control memory function).
What part of the brain do sports affect?
It affects all of your brain because you use all of your brain to think.
Is amnesia a personality disorder?
No, amnesia is not a personality disorder. Amnesia is a loss of memory, often caused by physical damage to the brain, psychological trauma, or other factors, while personality disorders involve long-standing patterns of behavior that deviate from cultural norms.
What is affected in the brain of people who have amnesia?
Amnesia typically affects the hippocampus, a region of the brain responsible for forming new memories. Damage to this area can result in an individual having difficulty creating new memories or retrieving old ones. Other brain regions involved in memory formation and storage may also be impacted depending on the underlying cause of the amnesia.
