#amnesia

• Amnestic — Pertaining to amnesia, causing memory loss, or characterized by severe impairments in the consolidation and recall of memories. In a clinical and neuropsychological sense, it describes a structural syndrome or a pharmacological side effect that affects brain circuits responsible for short-term or long-term information storage, without necessarily altering other higher cognitive functions.
• Amnesic — Suffering from amnesia or characterized by the total or partial loss of memory. In a clinical sense, it describes a person experiencing structural difficulties in consolidating, storing, or recalling past information and events due to brain trauma, neurodegenerative disease, or intense psychological shock; it can also qualify a phenomenon or side effect.
• Amnesia — The total or partial loss of memory, caused by organic factors (head trauma, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases) or psychogenic factors (severe emotional shocks, psychological trauma). Structurally, the condition is classified into anterograde amnesia (inability to form new memories) and retrograde amnesia (inability to recall events prior to the onset of the disease), affecting the patient's quality of life and autonomy.
• Anterograde — Moving, progressing, or evolving forward, in the normal direction of a flow, current, or electrical impulse; oriented from the origin toward the periphery. In neuropsychology, the term describes a type of amnesia where the patient loses the capacity to store and recall new events occurring after a brain trauma.