Post-traumatic retrograde amnesia with selective impairment of autobiographical memory

Cortex. 1994 Sep;30(3):459-68. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(13)80341-3.

Abstract

A selective, temporally limited retrograde amnesia, confined to autobiographical memory, was the only sequela of a "minor" head trauma in two young men. The retrograde memory gap covered about one year of life before the trauma and persisted for several months, without any anterograde deficit or other cognitive disturbances. This unusual pattern of retrograde amnesia deserves close consideration and points to the dissociation of memory subsystems and mechanisms.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Amnesia, Retrograde / diagnosis*
  • Amnesia, Retrograde / physiopathology
  • Amnesia, Retrograde / psychology
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / diagnosis
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / physiopathology
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / psychology
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Frontal Lobe / injuries
  • Frontal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Head Injuries, Closed / diagnosis*
  • Head Injuries, Closed / physiopathology
  • Head Injuries, Closed / psychology
  • Humans
  • Life Change Events*
  • Male
  • Mental Recall* / physiology
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon