There's a neurologist in Boston who talks about the way he can tell if someone's memory loss is a serious problem or not. He said, if you come to me and say your memory doesn't work any more, most of the time it's normal. But if your employer or your spouse comes to me and says your memory isn't working, it's probably a disease. And there are serious memory problems that people're gonna have. Well, there's something called amnesia .
Amnesia means serious memory loss.
There are all types of amnesia. Sometimes amnesia can, you can be hit on the head and your brain damaged, and you might forget everything that happened in your life up until that point. Or, you might just forget a few hours right around the injury. There's also another kind of amnesia that a lot of people might have experienced in their lives, which is memory loss related to consumption of too much alcohol. You drink a lot, you get drunk, and the next day, there are couple of hours of that night that you couldn't remember.