Assertion: amnesia's memory | /r/HasProperty | retained
Facets:
value: as under a medical principle
type: MANNER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In patients with episodic memory loss, there are typically impairments in the learning of new information (which can be tested with word or picture lists in the office) and the retrieval of recently learned information (testable by asking about details of recent experiences in the patient's personal life [e.g., a family gathering] and corroborating with an informant), but memory for remote information is often retained (e.g., where the patient went to high school).
text: Duration of PTA may be difficult to gauge accurately; it may be overestimated (for example, if the patient is asleep or under the influence of drugs or alcohol for part of the time) or underestimated (for example, if some memories come back before continuous memory is regained).
text: The severity of the condition is often indicated by what memories are retained, as under a medical principle known as Ribot’s Law, more recent memories are lost first, with more ingrained memories tending to be less likely to be dislodged.
text: More commonly, retrograde amnesia co-occurs with anterograde amnesia and shows a temporal gradient, in which memories closest in time to the onset of amnesia are lost, but more remote memories are retained (Hodges, 1994).