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amnesia

vr.tr.amnesia · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain amnesia and its types in general terms from clinical sources, describe causes, assessment and management, distinguish amnesia from dementia and ordinary forgetting, and route personal questions to clinicians.

Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

Research draft, second pass

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain amnesia and its types in general terms from clinical sources, describe causes, assessment and management, distinguish amnesia from dementia and ordinary forgetting, and route personal questions to clinicians.

A deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, drugs or psychological trauma, in forms such as retrograde amnesia for past events, anterograde amnesia for forming new memories, transient global amnesia, drug-induced amnesia including persisting amnestic disorders, dissociative amnesia of psychological origin and memory loss after intensive care; amnesia is assessed by neuropsychological testing and managed according to its cause.

What it is for: Not applicable; a clinical condition.

It can be explain types and causes; relay assessment and management; distinguish from dementia and forgetting; route personal questions.

Distinguishing features

Memory-specific deficit

Organic and psychogenic causes

Retrograde and anterograde patterns

Often preserved other cognition

What it looks like

Not a visible object; a clinical presentation.

How it is recognised

Memory loss from brain or psychological causes

Retrograde, anterograde, transient, drug-induced, dissociative

Dementia is a broader decline; ordinary forgetting is not amnesia; fictional amnesia differs from clinical reality

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

memory disorder

is a kind of - in registry terms

cognitive disorder

is assessed by - of memory

neuropsychological test

is contrasted with - a broader decline

dementia

In practice

Families and kinds

retrograde amnesia

anterograde amnesia

transient global amnesia

drug-induced amnesia and persisting amnestic disorders

dissociative amnesia

post-traumatic and post-ICU amnesia

Korsakoff syndrome

Identifiers

ICD-11 MB21.1 amnesia

MeSH D000647

Standards and regulation

Clinical guidelines on memory disorders

DSM-5 and ICD-11 criteria for amnestic and dissociative disorders

Failure modes and hazards

Missing treatable causes

Agents giving personal medical advice

Fictional stereotypes of amnesia

Confusing with dementia

Also called

drug-induced persisting amnestic diseaseDrug-induced amnesiaretrograde amnesiaattributive amnesiapost ICU amnesiadissociative amnesiatransient global amnesiaTransient epileptic amnesiaLacunar amnesiasource amnesiacharacter amnesiafixation amnesiachildhood amnesiaanterograde amnesiamemory erasureselective memory lossPost-traumatic amnesiadissociative fuguememory distrust syndrome

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.amnesia

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What amnesia is.

Clinical.

Definition

Definition and types.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is amnesia, and how do retrograde, anterograde and other types differ? definition
  2. Is the question about amnesia, dementia or ordinary forgetting? boundary

Causes

Causes.

Causes

Causes.

  1. What causes amnesia, from injury and stroke to drugs and psychological trauma? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific cause? action
Care Assessment and management.

Clinical.

Assessment

Assessment.

Assessment

Assessment.

  1. How is amnesia assessed, and when is it an emergency? provenance
  2. Is the user describing sudden memory loss, which needs urgent medical care? boundary

Management

Management and rehabilitation.

Management

Management.

  1. How is amnesia managed and rehabilitated according to its cause, in general terms? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Science Memory science.

Science.

Brain

Brain basis.

Brain

Brain.

  1. What do cases such as patient H.M. reveal about memory systems? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Dissociative

Dissociative amnesia.

Dissociative

Dissociative.

  1. What is dissociative amnesia, and what debates surround it, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Culture and history.

Context.

Culture

Amnesia in fiction.

Culture

Culture.

  1. How does fictional amnesia differ from clinical reality? provenance
  2. Which entry fits amnesia in fiction? action

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How has amnesia been studied historically, from Ribot to modern neuroscience? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of neuropsychology? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should dissociative amnesia be a separate primary entry?
  • How should clinical guidelines be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming types and an unclear term; should they be split off?
Draft as JSON