anterograde
Americanadjective
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occurring or performed in the standard direction of movement or flow.
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Medicine/Medical. characterized by impaired memory formation after an inciting incident, so that new memories are temporarily or permanently unable to be retained.
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He was now suffering from anterograde amnesia, remembering all the events before the surgery but unable to form new memories.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
The N.Y.U. psychologist Jerome Bruner has written that the “self is a perpetually rewritten story,” but anterograde amnesiacs are not subject to the revisions of experience, and Johnson is unlikely to abandon her cheery industriousness.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015
Damage to it can lead to anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories, as depicted in the 2004 Hollywood film 50 First Dates.
From Forbes ● Oct. 7, 2014
In 1953, a bilateral lobectomy was performed that alleviated the epilepsy but resulted in the inability for HM to form new memories—a condition called anterograde amnesia.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
There are people with anterograde amnesia who have lost or have an impaired ability to form new memories who might conceivably be able to take these tests repeatedly.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2011
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