Talk:Anterograde amnesia

message: I was with a person coming out of a procedure where fentanyl was used. She was awake for the procedure, but remembered none of it. (It was an esophageogastroduodenoscopy, if I recall correctly.) When they wheeled her out, I was there when she woke up. She doesn't like needles; she was upset when they took her IV out. She passed out for a few seconds, then expressed surprise that her IV was out.
Is this anterograde amnesia? Can it be induced by drugs like this? As in, the drug suppressed the formation of new memories? Is it called the same thing? grendel|khan 04:22, 2004 Sep 15 (UTC)
:That's a good question (is it called the same thing?). It definitely can occur, and I'll give a personal experience. I had an ERCP done (look it up on Wiki) last year and was given an anesthetic (or anesthetics) by injection. The one I remember seeing being injected was white and creamy in appearance. I remember a wonderful head rush and making a comment about wanting a few bottles to take home for later. I then "woke up" in recovery. I asked how long I had been asleep. Their answer was "not at all". After asking some more questions I learned that if I was asleep, they would not be able to perform an ERCP since they have to give the patient directions (turn on your side... swallow hard...). They said that the anesthetic sometimes blocks short term memory retention, so the patient simply doesn't remember anything while under the influence. They even told me of cases where someone will ask the same series of questions over and over again while recovering. Each question "reminds" them to ask the next, but they don't remember the answer for more than a few seconds. The nurses are used to it and simply answer the questions over and over. Fracture98 08:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question 

message: I re-added the Dory citation after Diceman removed it because it does belong here. But after rereading the text I wrote in fleshing out the entries, I realize that its lack of any part of the term "anterograde amnesia" may have been misconstrued as implying that Dory's condition was different. This was not my intent. I was merely trying to avoid distracting repetition of the phrase "anterograde amnesia" by using slightly different wording for each citation. (This was more important when the text was a paragraph, less so now that it's a list.) The start of the paragraph (now the heading of the list) makes it plain that these are supposedly instances of anterograde amnesia. I apologize if my zeal for interesting prose made this unclear. ☺ — Jeff Q 17:49, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional citations 

message: If a knowledgeable editor could please add it, the article should cite how many people have anterograde amnesia (worldwide if stats are available).  Is this a condition of 400 people, or 40,000?  Tempshill (talk) 05:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many? 

message: The 'famous cases' section of this article says, "As a result, H.M. had bilateral damage to both the hippocampal formation and the perirhinal cortex. H.M. had normal intelligence, perceptual ability, and a decent vocabulary, but he could not remember any new words or learn new tasks."
But the main article detailing H.M.'s case, here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_(patient)#History - says, "However, his ability to form long-term procedural memories was still intact; thus he could, as an example, learn new motor skills, despite not being able to remember learning them."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.159.129.44 (talk) 23:09, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

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message: It would be helpful to illustrate the physical features mentioned, for those of us not familiar with anatomical terminology. -- Beland (talk) 05:34, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a link to a picture that illustrates the areas mentioned. If this is not sufficient, then please add the Anatomical diagram requested tag back in. Egmason (talk) 02:28, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brain diagram needed 

message: I would respectfully like to request that Do Kyungsoo in the fanfiction "Anterograde Tomorrow", in the Fictional Cases section be removed and not reinserted.  I was reading this article today and upon reading the history page have noticed it being repeatedly edited in and back out since September 13, 2012.  While I have nothing against fanfiction, I feel that including a mention of this as an example of anterograde amnesia in the article is giving it undue weight as to its importance and has possibly been included due to a conflict of interest.  I have no opinion as to the other current list entries in the section as I am not familiar with them except that Zachary Levi played Gus in Remember Sunday needs to be reworded to be consistent with the other list items. Previously, a larger section existed under Fictional Cases and the entire section was removed at some point, but is being resubmitted by various editors.  I am not sure if there is a better way to handle this portion of the article as it seems to undergo modification quite regularly.  I am open to thoughts.
Hespers (talk) 23:42, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fanfiction cited in Fictional Cases section 

message: The article currently calls Anterograde amnesia an "ailment" and a "disorder". Yet drugs are widely used during medical procedures (colonoscopies etc) that are known to induce short-term Anterograde amnesia; this is not a mere side-effect, but apparently considered at least somewhat desirable, or even the main desired effect, by doctors. It is quite convenient for doctors, for patients to have little memory of what they experienced during medical procedures. Some patients may be grateful for this, some may not -- but they are seldom offered meaningful choices. The article should address the intentional use of drugs by doctors to induce Anterograde amnesia -- and whether it is indeed always as short-term as intended.-71.174.175.150 (talk) 19:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  medical use of Anterograde amnesia 

message: Amnesic automatism redirects here but no definition of such is given.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.71.46.143 (talk) 12:45, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  amnesic automatism?