Sentences with phrase «form of amnesia»

As misleading as it would be to see these cultures as monolithic and unified, it would also require an ideologically dubious form of amnesia to disregard their historically diverse trajectories.

There is one small issue though, Flash has instantly been inflicted with a form of amnesia which has wiped his memory of any of the events leading up to this moment.

The book chronicled the struggles of a woman who suffers from an acute form of amnesia, and has to reconstruct the details of her life every day when she wakes up.

(Of note, this is the form of amnesia Christine suffers from in Before I Go to Sleep).

Anterograde is the most common form of amnesia, and includes those who are unable to store, retain or recall new knowledge after the event that triggers the amnesia.

Kidman plays a woman who suffers from a form of amnesia which sees her wake every morning with no idea who the man is in bed with her.

Christine Lucas is suffering from a complicated form of amnesia whereby she can not remember anything...

Based on S. J. Watson's highly successful debut novel, Before I Go to Sleep follows the intriguing story of Christine (Nicole Kidman) who, suffering from an acute form of amnesia, wakes up every morning not knowing who she is, where she is, or who the strange man (Colin Firth) laying in the bed beside her is.

When Lu finally is released, Feng, apparently suffering some form of amnesia, doesn't recognize him.

An experiment performed nearly 100 years ago by Swiss psychologist Édouard Claparède provides a clue: Claparède was treating a woman suffering from a debilitating form of amnesia that left her incapable of forming new memories.

You'd think I would've remembered that from the last time I had a baby, but having children gives you a certain form of amnesia.

Other less common forms of amnesia include hysterical amnesia (memory loss caused by psychological trauma); lacunar amnesia (inability to remember a specific event); posthypnotic amnesia (caused by hypnosis); and transient global amnesia (temporary loss of all memory).

Not exact matches

In what has been aptly referred to as our pathetically pathological propensity and penchant for selective amnesia, we easily forget the events of yesterday only to remember them when they return and confront us in a more dastardly and devastating form.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

(11) Instead of Jarvik, a more convincing yet unlikely spokesman would be the popular Duane Graveline MD MPH, a former NASA astronaut, and author who was started on Lipitor during an annual astronaut physical at the Johnson Space Center, and 6 weeks later had an episode of transient global amnesia, a sudden form of total memory loss described in his book.

Dear European Film Award nominating members, You seem to have suffered some form of collective amnesia in recalling the last 12 months of European cinema.

Retrograde amnesia is the form that most people think of when they hear the term amnesia.

Through a variety of processes involving photography, research, documentation, and personal experience, de Andrade summons up a slice of memory and offers a deliberation on various forms of collective amnesia.

We engage in this odd form of on - again - off - again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons.