amnesics
People who forget
Amnesics are people who suffer from amnesia—the loss of memories or the inability to form new ones.
The term also refers to drugs or agents that cause amnesia, particularly those used in medical procedures: The anesthesiologist administered an amnesic before surgery.
As an adjective, amnesic describes anything relating to or causing memory loss.
Characterized by mental detachment
- psychogenicCaused by the mind
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- post-traumaticFollowing psychological injury
blackout · shock · fugue · traumatic brain injury · accident · abuse · survivor · therapy
Memory formation region
- anterogradeMoving in normal direction
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
neurodegenerative · cognitive decline · memory impairment · confabulation · encephalopathy · brain injury · neuroplasticity · neurons
Brief forgetting episode
- blanknessState of being empty
- gapsUnfilled spaces between
- forgettingFailing to retain memories
- hazeMurky atmospheric suspension
cloudiness · vagueness · fuzziness · blank slate · lost memories · fragmented · memory holes · missing time
Loss of spatial awareness
- self-recognitionPerceiving oneself as distinct
- personal historyAccount of someone's life
- nameIdentifying word for someone
- familyRelated people together
relationships · photographs · familiar faces · recognition · continuity · autobiographical · identity confusion · who am I
dissociative
Characterized by mental detachment
- psychogenicCaused by the mind
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
post-traumatic · blackout · shock · fugue · traumatic brain injury · accident · abuse · survivor · therapy · recovery
hippocampus
Memory formation region
- anterogradeMoving in normal direction
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's · neurodegenerative · cognitive decline · memory impairment · confabulation · encephalopathy · brain injury · neuroplasticity · neurons · synapses
memory lapse
Brief forgetting episode
- blanknessState of being empty
- gapsUnfilled spaces between
- forgettingFailing to retain memories
haze · cloudiness · vagueness · fuzziness · blank slate · lost memories · fragmented · memory holes · missing time
disorientation
Loss of spatial awareness
- self-recognitionPerceiving oneself as distinct
- personal historyAccount of someone's life
- nameIdentifying word for someone
family · relationships · photographs · familiar faces · recognition · continuity · autobiographical · identity confusion · who am I · lost years
amnesicsmemorizers
Those who retain information
rememberers · savants · recallers · elephants
- selective amnesiaUnconsciously blocking specific memories
- anterograde amnesiaInability to create memories
- retrograde amnesiaInability to recall past events
- cultural amnesiaSociety forgetting its past
- traumatic amnesiaMemory gap from trauma
- childhood amnesiaInability to recall early life