John's Case Study: Anterograde Amnesia

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1. I believe its anterograde amnesia because john can remember his long-term memories that he had before the stroke, but can’t recall he short term memories, like he’s grandson who was born after his stroke. Anterograde amnesia, also known as fixation amnesia, is the loss of the ability to create new memories, leading to a reduced or complete failure to recall the recent past, even though long-term memories from before the incident, which caused the amnesia remain intact. Patients may therefore repeat questions several times, or fail to recognize people they just met minutes before, in Johns case he’s grandson. Research shows that anterograde amnesia is caused from, a failure of memory encoding and storage. Patients Suffering from anterograde

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