amnestic
Causing recall loss
Amnestic describes something related to or causing amnesia—the loss of memory.
In medical contexts, an amnestic episode is a period of memory impairment: The patient experienced an amnestic event following the seizure.
Amnestic disorders affect the ability to form new memories or recall past ones.
The term appears most often in clinical and research settings.
Moving in normal direction
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
- hippocampusMemory formation region
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
neurodegenerative · encephalopathy · confabulation · cognitive · neurology · cerebral · anoxia · aphasia
Complete power loss
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- gapUnfilled space between
- blankWithout marks or content
- fugueContrapuntal musical form
void · blankness · erasure · oblivion · wipeout · forgetting · loss · disremembering
Drug promoting calm
- benzodiazepineSedative drug class
- propofolIntravenous anesthetic for sedation
- anestheticPain-blocking substance
- drug-inducedTriggered by pharmaceuticals
intoxication · alcohol · procedural · preoperative · blackout · substance · medication · hypnotic
Contrapuntal musical form
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- identityWho someone is
derealization · depersonalization · psychogenic · switching · disconnection · stress-induced · repression · compartmentalization
anterograde
Moving in normal direction
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
- hippocampusMemory formation region
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's · neurodegenerative · encephalopathy · confabulation · cognitive · neurology · cerebral · anoxia · aphasia · transient
blackout
Complete power loss
fugue · void · blankness · erasure · oblivion · wipeout · forgetting · loss · disremembering · patchy
sedative
Drug promoting calm
- benzodiazepineSedative drug class
- propofolIntravenous anesthetic for sedation
- anestheticPain-blocking substance
drug-induced · intoxication · alcohol · procedural · preoperative · blackout · substance · medication · hypnotic · barbiturate
fugue
Contrapuntal musical form
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
identity · derealization · depersonalization · psychogenic · switching · disconnection · stress-induced · repression · compartmentalization · autobiographical
amnesticretentive
Able to hold information
remembering · eidetic · unforgetting · total recall · recollective
amnesia, amnesiac, amnion, amnesic, anamnesis, amnesias, amnesics