| Amnesia is a condition which can define by the loss | | | | * Severe illness |
| of memory which can last for two hours or | | | | * High fever |
| sometimes two months or more. This loss of | | | | * Seizures |
| memory can be due to some disturbing, appalling, | | | | * Emotional shock or hysteria |
| psychological experience or brain injury or emotional | | | | * Alcohol-related brain damage |
| chain of events. There are different reasons and | | | | * Drugs |
| causes of amnesia such as organic or functional. | | | | * Stroke |
| Organic amnesia is caused due to damage to your | | | | * Alzheimer's disease |
| brain by external factors which can be due to | | | | * Brain surgery |
| physical reasons like trauma or disease. Functional | | | | The common factor in all the above causes is that it |
| amnesia is due to psychological factors. | | | | has affected the brain in some or the other manner. |
| There are different types of Amnesia | | | | As there is damage to the brain cells and |
| Anterograde amnesia - In this kind of amnesia the | | | | deterioration of cells causes the loss of memory. |
| patient loses all its senses and is far away from | | | | Brain injury can happen due to some berserk car |
| remembering the current events after the trauma or | | | | accident or due to some fall or a blow on your head. |
| disease affected the patient. | | | | Alzheimer sufferers are the worst hit with memory |
| Emotional/hysterical amnesia - This can be said as the | | | | loss as it is the first thing which the disease hits upon. |
| temporary condition which wont be lasting for a long | | | | Firstly they would loose memory on the current |
| time and is basically caused by psychological trauma. | | | | events and later in the advanced stages of Alzheimer |
| Lacunar amnesia - This state of amnesia creates a | | | | the long term memory is affected. |
| blockage in your mind for a specific event. | | | | Amnesia can be prevented when all kind of brain |
| Korsakoff syndrome - This is caused due to the | | | | damages are avoided and prevented. This would |
| constant intake of alcohol and can also be said as the | | | | mean all the common sense precautions should be |
| state of alcoholism. | | | | taken which would lead to damage to your brain such |
| Posthypnotic amnesia - This kind of amnesia is due to | | | | as wearing helmet, using seat belt as well as avoiding |
| the prolonged hypnotic state which keeps your mind | | | | the use of alcohol and drugs. A healthy and fit body |
| unfit to remember the events which happened during | | | | will have less of damages due to strokes or seizures |
| hypnosis as well as information have been part of | | | | which occur due to the blockages in your heart. This |
| your long-term memory. | | | | happens due to improper diet and your body being |
| Retrograde amnesia - It is a sequence of loss events | | | | treated as a junkyard of junk food. |
| which took place before the onset of trauma or | | | | Treatment of amnesia depends upon the cause of |
| disease causing amnesia. | | | | amnesia and on that basis diagnosis is done. If it is a |
| Transient global amnesia - This kind of amnesia | | | | brain injury due to some physical causes like accident |
| occurs to people who are middle-aged or elderly and | | | | or fall then it has to be treated immediately by the |
| it is short term memory loss lasting for few minutes. | | | | doctor. Emotional trauma can be cured or helped |
| Causes of Amnesia | | | | through psychotherapy. Hypnosis has played an |
| There are many reasons which can be the cause of | | | | active role in getting people's memory back. Medicines |
| amnesia and these are some of them | | | | have been an important factor in helping people out. |
| * Head injury | | | | |