Retrograde Amnesia Research Paper

What pain and agony it is to have someone who you've grown to love and adorable only forget who you are after being victim to a disease called Amnesia. Amnesia is involved with the brain's memory functions through sensory, short, and long-term memory. There are two types of Amnesia that King describes in her book (Experience Psychology Ed. 3) and those are Retrograde Amnesia and Anterograde Amnesia. Let's look at the impact that both types have on their victims. First, Retrograde Amnesia is essentially where a piece of the past has been forgotten. Thankfully this type does not affect the present information of new events. Although, it is more common of the two, it occurs only when the brain is physically impacted or by an electrical …show more content…
Long-term memories are first stored in the hippocampus, and then gradually transferred to other parts of the brain so the hippocampus is no longer needed to retain and access of them. Retrograde amnesia also affects memories made close to the time of injury, but usually does not impact older memories, which have already been consolidated. Through the Explicit memory (declarative memory) there is a conscious flow of memories that get encoded by the hippocampus. The precise location the effect of Retrograde Amnesia in long-term memory is unknown, but it is suggested that it takes place in the frontal cortex.
Whereas, Anterograde Amnesia is a memory disorder wherein people are unable to recall news events or information presented to them. Short-term memory allows people with anterograde amnesia to temporarily retain information, but are lost because it can't be coded and never reach long term memory thus never moving forward in time. Most of the time one's sensory memory can be retained and thus experience some emotion from the stimuli, but can't retain what makes you have that same emotion