Anterograde amnesia
Loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.
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Midazolam
Benzodiazepine medication used for anesthesia, procedural sedation, trouble sleeping, and severe agitation.
Benzodiazepine medication used for anesthesia, procedural sedation, trouble sleeping, and severe agitation.
It works by inducing sleepiness, decreasing anxiety, and causing a loss of ability to create new memories.
Lorazepam
Benzodiazepine medication.
Benzodiazepine medication.
It is also used during surgery to interfere with memory formation and to sedate those who are being mechanically ventilated.
Hippocampus
Major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates.
Major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates.
People with extensive, bilateral hippocampal damage may experience anterograde amnesia: the inability to form and retain new memories.
Benzodiazepine
Fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.
Fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.
High doses of many shorter-acting benzodiazepines may also cause anterograde amnesia and dissociation.
Temporal lobe
One of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.
One of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.
The medial temporal lobes include the hippocampi, which are essential for memory storage, therefore damage to this area can result in impairment in new memory formation leading to permanent or temporary anterograde amnesia.
Amnesia
Deficit in memory caused by brain damage or disease, but it can also be caused temporarily by the use of various sedatives and hypnotic drugs.
Deficit in memory caused by brain damage or disease, but it can also be caused temporarily by the use of various sedatives and hypnotic drugs.
There are two main types of amnesia: retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia.
Flunitrazepam
Benzodiazepine used to treat severe insomnia and assist with anesthesia.
Benzodiazepine used to treat severe insomnia and assist with anesthesia.
This may appear as lack of concentration, confusion and anterograde amnesia—the inability to create memories while under the influence.
Alprazolam
Fast-acting tranquilizer of medium duration in the triazolobenzodiazepine class, which are benzodiazepines (BZDs) fused with a triazole ring.
Fast-acting tranquilizer of medium duration in the triazolobenzodiazepine class, which are benzodiazepines (BZDs) fused with a triazole ring.
Anterograde amnesia and concentration problems
Memory consolidation
Category of processes that stabilize a memory trace after its initial acquisition.
Category of processes that stabilize a memory trace after its initial acquisition.
Systematic studies of anterograde amnesia started to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s.
Episodic memory
Memory of everyday events that can be explicitly stated or conjured.
Memory of everyday events that can be explicitly stated or conjured.
For example, anterograde amnesia, from damage of the medial temporal lobe, is an impairment of declarative memory that affects both episodic and semantic memory operations.