Sentences with phrase «of an amnesia patient»

Now Dr Gerald Burgess has described the study of an amnesia patient — who suffered memory loss after root - canal treatment at a dentist — in an academic article in the journal Neurocase.

Hitchcock's psychological thriller, starring Gregory Peck, sees a psychiatrist protect the identity of an amnesia patient who may or may not have committed murder.

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Neuropsychologist Justin Feinstein and his collaborators showed a group of patients with severe anterograde amnesia two series of video clips (including scenes from The Notebook and America's Funniest Home Videos) to induce sadness and happiness in their subjects.

Dr Burgess said: «One of our reasons for writing up this individual's case was that we had never seen anything like this before in our assessment clinics, and we do not know what to make of it, but felt an honest reporting of the facts as we assessed them was warranted, that perhaps there will be other cases, or people who know more than we do about what might have caused the patient's amnesia.

The amnesia patient suffered memory loss after root - canal treatment at a dentist and wakes up every morning thinking it is the day of his dentist appointment.

This speculation was sparked by two seemingly key coincidences of one, timing when this protein synthesis stage occurs coincides with the patient's forgetting at 90 minutes or thereabouts, and two, both «episodic» and «procedural» memories appear to require successful protein synthesis to occur for long - term memory permanence, and the patient can not retain any new either episodic or procedural memories — and this is unusual compared to traditional cases of amnesia.

«An MRI might determine that the brain looks normal, but fast forward two years and the patient, who was married and successful, is suddenly unemployed, divorced, and miserable — without any awareness or understanding that new and lasting cognitive and emotional difficulties (including various degrees of amnesia, difficulty concentrating, depression, apathy, anxiety, and even a prominent personality change) emerged due to a car accident two years earlier.

Early in her restless, inventive career, Elizabeth Phelps was trying to understand the deep structure of memory by showing word lists to people with amnesia — patients who'd survived a brain injury or stroke but lost the ability to remember.

In the early 1950's, the psychological study of a few neurosurgical patients (including the now well - known patient H.M.), all of whom exhibited a profound anterograde amnesia following bilateral damage to the medial structures of the temporal lobes, revealed the importance of the hippocampal region for autobiographical memory.

The most famous case of anterograde amnesia was a patient known in the literature as H.M..

When LDL is driven too low, it's no wonder that a lot of patients develop memory problems or pre-Alzheimer's, or even total global amnesia, which is really losing one's memory.

Pyroluria, like copper - zinc imbalance, was first researched at the Brain - Bio Center.36 Pyroluria patients display a range of symptoms connected with severe zinc deficiency that are familiar to me from my work with Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS), including nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal pains and headache — all of which can be associated with food intolerance and digestive problems — as well as nervous exhaustion, emotional fragility, palpitations, depression and insomnia.37 Other complications include abnormal EEG findings38 and cognitive difficulties ranging from misperceptions and hallucinations39 to amnesia.40 Cognitive deficits such as memory, attention and concentration disturbance are widely recognized in CFIDS patients41 and can occasionally take on more serious manifestations.

The Inpatient puts you into the role of a psychiatric patient who has amnesia.

The premise is the stuff of nightmares: you're a patient in the Sanatorium and suffering from amnesia, your main goal is to unearth your memories - to discover who you are and why you're there.

The Inpatient is a horror game with psychological elements that places you in the role of a patient with amnesia in the Blackwood Sanatorium, over 60 years prior to the events of the frightening events of Until Dawn.

The game is a first - person title, placing players in the shoes of a patient in a Sanatorium who's been diagnosed with amnesia.

Most patients are usually in a state of post-traumatic amnesia or shock when they enter sub-acute care, but they leave capable of living independently, with home care, or in a long - term care facility.