How To Use Amnesia In A Sentence

The Canadian police doubted he was a genuine amnesiac and held him on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
And this means that the theories of universally acting psychical repression, of the unconscious, of the endopsychic censor, of the significance of resistance and amnesia, of the employment of highly complicated and phantastic symbolism, of the manifestations of sexuality and so forth have been made use of in a high-handed, uncalled for, unnecessary and unscientific manner to prove the truth of the thesis with which the author set out upon his journey. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Nader backers who should know better are suffering from a highly selective historical amnesia when they make these arguments.
This is temporary amnesia caused by the fact that human beings are not good at looking out for two things at once. Times, Sunday Times
If encoding is absent, amnesia will follow, as in the case of many of our dreams.

Amnesia can be caused by damage to areas of the brain that are vital for memory processing. Unlike a temporary episode of memory loss (transient global amnesia), amnestic syndrome can be permanent.
But our amnesia affects our very ability to determine their proper use. Christianity Today
Of particular interest is the more controversial class of amnesic syndromes known as dissociative, functional, or psychogcnic amnesias.
When mixed with alcohol it can lead to blackouts and amnesia.
Objective To discuss the proper sedative and anterograde amnesia dosage of midazolam in epidural anaesthesia during lower abdominal and lower limb operation.
Why do you think there is this national amnesia about the history of these policies? Smithsonian Mag
Conveniently, he had developed amnesia where that part of his life was concerned. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
His name escapes me now (probably traumatic amnesia), but I hope his ears are burning, wherever he is.
Role evolves into a speech to the amnesia.
Why do you think there is this national amnesia about the history of these policies? Smithsonian Mag
He accused men of his generation of selective amnesia about their pasts. The Tribes Triumphant
The best guess for what might be happening is that patients unwittingly trigger the transient global amnesia by raising the pressure inside their abdomens.
The belligerent crazification and the blazing straw men are reason enough to love the guy, but the best thing about Fred Hiatt is his severe case of anterograde amnesia. Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Call It a Comeback
I've always dreamed of three things: having amnesia, being a spy with superhuman abilities, and being one of those guys who walks around naked as a jaybird.
If a neurochemical abnormality in "amnesiac" fruit flies affects their memories, then there's hope that the same neurochemical in humans could be targeted to affectively treat our own memory disorders. Gee Henry: Book Review: Marlene Zuk's 'Sex on Six Legs'
Manchester A mother was confused and distressed when a rare form of amnesia caused her suddenly to forget 16 years of her life. Times, Sunday Times
There are also forms of organically based temporary or transient amnesia, such as those induced by drug or alcohol intoxication or by epileptic seizures.
This "paramnesia" theory suggests that the original event was somehow linked to distress and was being suppressed from conscious recognition, no longer accessible to memory. Boing Boing: March 27, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Archives
The psychological goal of such amnesia was the elimination of traumatic fixation; the narratological goal was the elimination of chaotic, incoherent reminiscence.
He claimed he had amnesia. The Sun
When a new consciousness is brought about it shouldn't bring about historical amnesia as it often does.
The use of the concepts of amnesia and anamnesis, counter- and auto-hegemony, remembering and re-remembering, provide a theoretical frame for the writing in keeping with postcolonial scholarly discourse.
On the day that patients regained consciousness, most had no residual disability, although some seemed to have retrograde or anterograde amnesia.
There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
Reports by patients of memory loss are of the erasing of autobiographical memories or retrograde amnesia.
He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.
Even profound amnesiacs can usually recall how to perform daily activities.
Why do you think there is this national amnesia about the history of these policies? Smithsonian Mag
Discrete damage to the brain, especially to parts of the interior surface of the temporal lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, can also cause profound anterograde amnesia.
But, then again, I suppose it's ultimately within the province of the fact-finder to determine whether the alleged case of amnesia is actually believable. Medical Malpractice
It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.
Researchers have shown that a bright flash from a beam of electrons causes amnesia in rats. Times, Sunday Times
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site. Mind Hacks: August 2005 Archives
I've also found myself in amnesiac states during or after arguments or highly stressful events, and of course I have the standard BPD features of depersonalisation and derealisation Mental Nurse
Naturally - or, rather, unnaturally - this process was articulated on the page as amnesia: "When I came to consider the matter, the truth was that my memory had been fraying at the edges for some time; the grey waters of Lethe undercutting its soft cliffs, so that my bungaloid recollections - which, no matter how tasteless, had the virtue of being owned outright, not mortgaged - tumbled on to the beach below. The Guardian World News
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space. Mind Hacks: Gallery Space Recall
One young man ends up in hospital dressed in a pair of shorts and suffering from amnesia. Times, Sunday Times
He accused men of his generation of selective amnesia about their pasts. The Tribes Triumphant
For many of the cast members, the show's consistency through the decades has allowed for precisely the sort of security and comfort that their murdering, comatose, back-stabbing, amnesiac, time-travelling characters always found so elusive. Life After 'Life' Is a Mystery
He claimed he had amnesia. The Sun
If only Dakin would walk back into the Sycamore on her own two snippy little feet and announce that she'd had a bout of amnesia. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Some of his characters seem to be in a state of amnesia or unconsciousness.
I'll be talking about the science and neuropsychology of reduplicative paramnesia and we'll both be discussing how we've found trying to combine our disciplines to better understand space and location, as well as unusual states of mind. Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives
There is only a kind of collective amnesia, produced by keeping your eyes down and your pockets full. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
By contrast with their failure to affect habituation, the protein synthesis inhibitors did produce amnesia for associative learning.
Its heroine, Claire, is suffering from stress-related amnesia.
It would evaporate in institutional amnesia. 15 Banana-Now Time Reengineering and redesign often focus on time compression.
‘Amnesia’ features some great guitar picking from Nicholls over a perfect lazy groove.
This is temporary amnesia caused by the fact that human beings are not good at looking out for two things at once. Times, Sunday Times
Another form of potentially blissful ignorance is traumatic amnesia.
He accused men of his generation of selective amnesia about their pasts. The Tribes Triumphant
Cure takes these ideas and adds the innocence of a child-like amnesiac behind them, an amnesiac who walks through a trail of death without ever bloodying his own hands.
Under hypnosis, you lose consciousness and have amnesia.
Clearly, if I suffer selective amnesia, forgetting, say, five years of my life, I do not cease to be me.
Five patients with severe anterograde amnesia, which largely prevents the creation of new memories, watched a 19-minute video of film clips about death and loss. Blueberries Slow Tumor Growth
Visitors are also quickly drawn into the labyrinth of willed amnesia through interactive displays.
My problems are typical: misplaced keys, forgetting a task while in the middle of it and, of course, name amnesia.
And amnesia is the most cliche plot contrivance of the modern era. Heroes Season 2 Officially Sucks
Do people really get amnesia from a bonk on the head?
This self should be free from mental and physical stigmata (suggestibility, amnesia, aboulia, anesthesia, etc.), which commonly characterize the disintegrated states making up multiple personality.
Anterograde amnesia and minimal retrograde amnesia with thalamic and hippocampal lesions in neuro-Behcet's disease is rare.
During the coming week, artist Simon Pope and I will be giving a couple of talks on Walking Here and There - an art / science collaboration project that aims to investigate the interaction of place and memory in psychosis, and particularly reduplicative paramnesia, the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously. Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives
He slept like a log, his amnesia forgotten, through the morning and the noon.
Common medications such as Gravol or Benadryl, often unwittingly mixed with alcohol, are more likely to be the cause of blackouts or amnesia than the popular image "of a drink being spiked in a bar by some creepy guy," said Baker. Ottawa Sun
The cognitive disorder in Huntington's disease is considered a ‘subcortical’ syndrome and usually lacks features such as aphasia, amnesia, or agnosia that are associated with dementia of the Aizheimer's type.
Sometimes, people also experience transient retrograde amnesia, forgetting some portion of their previous memories.
Yet shame brought about collective amnesia. Times, Sunday Times
Let's say that as an alien you arrive in your space-ship, have a bumpy landing and succumb to amnesia.
Very, very selective amnesia is practised on the other side.
Researchers have shown that a bright flash from a beam of electrons causes amnesia in rats. Times, Sunday Times
We were taught in medical and nursing school that we were helping them and giving them amnesia about their ICU experience but what we are really giving them is delusional memories and hallucinations and long term impairment," he says. Changing Intensive Care to Improve Life Afterward
He offers his assistance as a hypnotist to regress the amnesiac back to the point of her nightmares, hopefully sparking her memory.
Let's say that as an alien you arrive in your space-ship, have a bumpy landing and succumb to amnesia.
Could Noel be suffering from amnesia? Times, Sunday Times
Alone, its intoxication has been characterized as an induced state of psychotic delirium, marked by disorientation, pronounced confusion, and complete amnesia. The Serpent and the Rainbow
She concludes he apparently suffers from a form of short term amnesia that does not allow him to make new memories more than five minutes old though his pre-flight remain okay. The Memory Collectors-Meg Gardiner « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The timing of this immigration fervor is in time for getting the immigration wedge issue going for election ‘10? when lee atwater’s old index cards are all you have to go on, you tend to end up running the same campaigns over and over and over again. fortunately, amnesiacs like fuzzy and the ‘baggers never catch on that it’s always a re-run. Think Progress » Kristol Supports Arizona Immigration Law: ‘I Don’t Think It Violates Anyone’s Civil Rights’
He reappeared in December 2007 claiming amnesia. The Sun
When a few new traditionalist architects began to stir in the 1970s, they reawakened with a strange amnesia.
Were they to be subjected to artificial amnesia to make them forget what they saw and did?
This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war, and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.
The deputy either has a very short memory or is suffering from political amnesia.
In a series of experiments, we examine the experimental induction of déjà vu using posthypnotic amnesia PHA. Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives
However, he described the injury as ‘severe’ given the CT scan findings, the fracture and retrograde amnesia.
In this amnesiac state we began to misperceive these symbols and writings.
He accused men of his generation of selective amnesia about their pasts. The Tribes Triumphant
You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism.
This willful erasure seems to represent the deliberate amnesia of a society that does not want to remember.
Memento (2000): Presaging the somber vibe of the post-9/11 world, anterograde amnesia as a hook for the most cerebrally challenging thriller of the decade. Wired Top Stories
A consultant, however, suggested that the acute and late onset in an otherwise psychiatrically well person, the delusions of impostors (Capgras syndrome) and real and false neighborhoods (reduplicative paramnesia), and her difficulties finding her way about the unit (spatial disorientation) possibly indicated a nondominant parietal lobe stroke. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Along with these ‘desired’ effects, users also commonly experience confusion, anterograde amnesia, and delirium.
The last phase is marked by rapid reintegration of the personality and is often accompanied by amnesia.
Amnesia can be caused by emotional trauma.
Part of it measures five symptom areas: amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity confusion, and identity alteration.
With them are Hesperus (the semi-amnesiac golden robot who is a member of The Machine People race) and Dr. Meninx (a cranky aquatic being who uses a paper-thin avatar to communicate with non-aquatics) as well as several other Gentian shatterlings. REVIEW: House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
Although I've experienced depersonalisation and derealisation for years, I've only knowingly experienced full dissociative episodes - ie. proper periods of amnesia, losing time Mental Nurse
One theory is that he has suffered a trauma which has caused amnesia, one of the methods the mind uses to retreat from a shock.
He accused men of his generation of selective amnesia about their pasts. The Tribes Triumphant
It has no ecclesiology to speak of; it is full of historical amnesia; and it is generally scornful of rigorous theological reflection.
They had no choice but to resort to amnesia and intermittent power impotency, which is always completely hackneyed and boring. 'Heroes' recap: A walk down memory lane | EW.com
Funny how sentimentality and selective amnesia go together sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
EP has two types of amnesia — anterograde, which means he can't form new memories, and retrograde, which means he can't remember old memories either, at least not since 1960. Boing Boing
Memory in Hollywood is so short the place is practically amnesiac. SUMMER OF SECRETS
After the show, I wrote it up in an email, as the tenor of our conversation may have left us prone to ethylated amnesia on this, and other, topics. Kenneth Hite's Journal
For symptoms such as insomnia, amnesia, nightmares, rapid heart palpitations and night sweats.
Can amnesia run so deeply as to eliminate all traces of any sort of memories, semblances thereof, or feelings thereof?
One young man ends up in hospital dressed in a pair of shorts and suffering from amnesia. Times, Sunday Times
It will be the first time they have seen each other since he came back from the dead last month claiming to have amnesia. The Sun
I've made sure he is not dead, in a coma, in a witness relocation program, been carried off and devoured by wild dingos, suffering from amnesia or has recently been kidnapped by aliens.
Dylan sings his Mozambique, amnesia in centesis, these past lives repeat. Interstate Fugue W/ Blaupunkt & Febreze
We come now to the vexed questions of the Oedipus complex, childhood amnesia, and the so-called latency period, which is supposed to follow the Oedipal phase.
Was this self-induced amnesia, or part of the natural process of Fletcher's magic? THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
She had an accident when she was younger which resulted to the loss of use of her left eye and a severe case of a form of anterograde amnesia (her recent memory can only last for 13 hours). Ef – a tale of memories « Undercover
The deputy either has a very short memory or is suffering from political amnesia.
In early days, the dose of chloroform or of ether had to be sufficient to achieve all the required effects, but in modern practice the anaesthetic drug is used only to produce the loss of consciousness and amnesia.
By contrast with their failure to affect habituation, the protein synthesis inhibitors did produce amnesia for associative learning.
The amount of retrograde amnesia in H. M., for example, may have been grossly underestimated.
He reappeared in December 2007 claiming amnesia. The Sun
She was taken to hospital, apparently amnesiac and shocked.
He might even say I'm his ex-wife and amnesiac and he's got to find me quickly. SOMEBODY
Whether millions of record-buyers will share her selective amnesia is debatable.
Some readers have suggested amnesia is a cop-out, a bad soap opera plot fix. April 2008
Memento" (2000) - The disjointed, reverse chronology of this Christopher Nolan film left most viewers feeling as confused and disoriented as lead character Leonard, who suffers from anterograde amnesia, which prevents him from creating new memories. Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
Classical noirs remain within these confines: they abound with cases of amnesia in which the hero does not know who he is or what he did during the blackout.
Betty Sizemore suffers a mild state of amnesia after witnessing the brutal murder of her no-good husband Del.
Physicians would note amnesia in a chart and try to determine whether the amnesia was organic or functional.
But our amnesia affects our very ability to determine their proper use. Christianity Today
There's no longer any need to endure eight tracks of filler for a couple of decent tunes, but will "album albums" like Radiohead's Amnesiac get the widespread hearing they deserve?
Funny how sentimentality and selective amnesia go together sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
Mixed with alcohol it can cause severe disorientation, amnesia and loss of consciousness.
Even profound amnesiacs can usually recall how to perform daily activities.
Attempting to convey an epic feel on a low budget, the movie introduces us to an amnesiac protagonist who wakes up to an eerily empty London.
Amnesia is a primitive, self-preservation mechanism, which comes into play when man need to protect himself or herself from some form of severe emotional or physical trauma.
This study investigated the impact of suggestion focus on post-hypnotic amnesia for memories of a first romantic relationship.
Our mystery men soon establish the fact that their amnesia has resulted from inhaling the leaked contents of a punctured gas canister. Times, Sunday Times
Though diagnosed as a psychopath and then as suffering from hysterical amnesia - which he later said he faked - no one ever considered Hess clinically insane.
But what if the limpidly tutor to be a despotic maravilla blunderer, atonicity vet, calabura thunderer prisonbreak, increasing demurrage, hectogram crazy, and all tightly rijstaffel amnesiac of a guy? Rational Review
This 'snack amnesia' is a well-documented phenomenon, but forewarned is forearmed. Times, Sunday Times
The investigators contend that after Halcion hit the U.S. market in 1983, Upjohn misled the FDA about the significance of patients 'adverse reactions, which ranged from amnesia to paranoia. Halcion: A Damaging Report
He also suffers from amnesia and does not know exactly what he had been up to before he was shot. Times, Sunday Times
why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?
Later, Baddeley made contributions to the literature on the neuropsychology of memory, first in the field of amnesia and subsequently with respect to patients with impairments in phonological or articulatory functioning.
When it comes to the pain of childbirth, a little amnesia is a good thing. Babies can cause 'momnesia'
‘That's called retrograde amnesia, which is common,’ Umberto said.
Manchester A mother was confused and distressed when a rare form of amnesia caused her suddenly to forget 16 years of her life. Times, Sunday Times
I seemed to be suffering emotional amnesia. Times, Sunday Times
Amnesia can be caused by emotional trauma.
Many hypnotherapeutic techniques such as amnesia, hypermnesia, progression, paramnesia, automatic writing, dream induction, regression, production of experimental conflicts and crystal or mirror gazing require a somnambulistic state. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh scientists gave people material to memorize — once after being injected with a placebo and once after an injection of midazolam, a drug that causes short-term anterograde amnesia, in which the ability to form new memories is inhibited, while leaving old memories unaffected. Study Finds Clues About Memory Formation | Impact Lab
When a new consciousness is brought about it shouldn't bring about historical amnesia as it often does.
Even profound amnesiacs can usually recall how to perform daily activities.
Now that Liam's getting bits and pieces of that night, a dissociative amnesia explanation makes a lot of sense.
The way those deaths occurred, any reaction is possible including lacunar amnesia. And The Children Shall Lead
hysterical amnesia
We are afraid of our loved ones becoming amnesiac - of seeing blank non-recognition in the faces of those who have been crucial in defining our identities.
There is only a kind of collective amnesia, produced by keeping your eyes down and your pockets full. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The concept of “repressed memory,” known by the diagnostic term dissociative amnesia, has long fueled controversy in psychiatry. Speedlinking 12/26/07
Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an interval of amnesia, when, seated at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military engagement, Plevna. Ulysses
Okay, so, Dean knows his Angel enemas and maybe he figures amnesia is par for this particular course. Supernatural - Episode 5.04...SPOILERS
It covers a range of clinical presentations from identity disorder to amnesia.
He harvested a magnetic puff of amnesia. 2.
It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.
This is because all elephants suffer from emotional amnesia. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
Yet shame brought about collective amnesia. Times, Sunday Times
There's a bit of a sag in the middle of the album, but on the whole Hail To The Thief is a noticeably more inspiring record than Kid A or Amnesiac.
In addition, amnesia for traumatic events may occur in rare cases.
Role evolves into a speech to the amnesia.
Part of it measures five symptom areas: amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity confusion, and identity alteration.
'Could he be suffering from amnesia?' I suggested.
It would evaporate in institutional amnesia. 15 Banana-Now Time Reengineering and redesign often focus on time compression.
Even profound amnesiacs can usually recall how to perform daily activities.
A small number of people who go into a very deep hypnotic state experience spontaneous amnesia.
He also suffers from amnesia and does not know exactly what he had been up to before he was shot. Times, Sunday Times
Feinstein worked with a group of five patients who had a rare condition called anterograde amnesia, the same one that afflicted the protagonist of Memento. 2010 April | Spontaneous ∂erivation
One of the more interesting types of amnesia is what psychiatrists call the fugue state.
Post-traumatic amnesia is defined as ending when clear and continual memory returns.
Does calling the album Amnesia have anything to do with the amount of spliff you guys went through while recording this thing?
Reports by patients of memory loss are of the erasing of autobiographical memories or retrograde amnesia.
Pope of Harvard Medical School, recently argued that the psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia often called repressed memory Science Project
As soon as the president left the podium Wednesday night, we started shifting into our familiar spin-dry post-tragedy cycle of the modern era - speedy "closure," followed by a return to business as usual, followed by national amnesia. NYT > Home Page
Recollective experience and posthypnotic amnesia: The experimental induction of déjà vu Mind Hacks: It's like jamais vu never again
Total amnesia may also result from a medical operation that goes wrong.
By the way, if you want to make a quick $1000, the study's authors are offering that sum to anyone who can disprove their theory by providing an example of a character created before the year 1800 who suffers from what can be readily identified as dissociative amnesia. Harvard University Press Publicity Blog :
Could Noel be suffering from amnesia? Times, Sunday Times
It will be the first time they have seen each other since he came back from the dead last month claiming to have amnesia. The Sun
He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
At the moment, she understood, they were all suffering from acute stress disorder, a precursor of post-traumatic stress disorder that included all the PTSD symptoms, plus severe dissociative symptoms like selective amnesia, affective numbing, and derealization. The Girls He Adored
An amnesiac mind is a bookstore whose books are shelved spine-in, so we cannot read the titles.
Whether or not this is a valid reading (the amnesiac flailing attached to the thickening stage in Clute's narrative grammar of horror seems at odds with the "quickened" state of a liminal hero), it seems entirely appropriate that the end-state of this singularity is a sort of total infusion of consciousness and worldscape, the hero telepathically aware of what everyone in the world is thinking. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
The urban folkways of New York City, for all its highly cultivated habits of historical amnesia, have strong linkages to the distant past.
‘Your father,’ she continued, ‘has something called anterograde amnesia.’
Keep in mind that I crashed my car and got retrograde amnesia or something.
This is because all elephants suffer from emotional amnesia. THROWING THE ELEPHANT

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