Amnesia means loss of memory. People with amnesia lose their ability to memorize data or are unable to recall data from the memory. Amnesia is not being forgetful.
Everyone can get forgetful once in a while, but if you have amnesia you will not be able to recall the most important events of life, you will not remember important people and their names. Your brain simply can't process the stored memory.
It is a rare condition. People with amnesia can't even think of the future. In fact, recalling the past and imagination of future are interlinked, that is why people with amnesia lose sense of future. There is no cure of amnesia but some natural remedies can partially help.
How Do You Get Amnesia
Amnesia usually an age related brain disease, but any one can get it at any age. It can either be organically develops on functionally imposed. Organic causes include brain damage by aging (or diseases such as stroke, cancer and herpes, etc.), injury or with the use of any specific medicine.
Amnesia is an early warning sign of Alzheimer's disease.
Functionally, amnesia can be caused by psychological reasons. Your brain simply can't recall some important data from the memory due to defense mechanism trying to protect you.
{loadpsotion midad}Depending on the cause of amnesia, amnesia is categorized into different types.
There are many different types of amnesia. Below is a list of the most common ones:
1. Anterograde Amnesia - Short term memory problems due to injury. Person can remember everything before the injury.
2. Transient Global Amnesia - Temporary loss of all memory due to vascular diseases. new memories can be formed.
3. Traumatic amnesia - Memory loss due to hard blow or accident. Can get back memory depending on the severity of the blow. Sometimes another blow can bring it back.
4. Alcohol Abuse Amnesia - Gradual Memory loss due to extended alcohol abuse known as Wernicke-Korsakoff's psychosis
5. Hysterical Amnesia - Patients even forget their own identity. It is a very rare form.
6. Infantile Amnesia - loss of memories of early childhood.
7. Posthypnotic amnesia - events during hypnosis cannot be recalled.
8. Source Amnesia - Information may be remembered but the source is forgotten.
9. Blackout - Loss of memory of events or activities during heavy drinking due to heavy drinking.
10. Prosopamnesia - Can't remember faces.
As you can see some amnesia can become normal on their own but most of the amnesia is a permanent loss of memory. If there is an underlying disease causing amnesia then treating the disease can resolve amnesia. Sometimes hypnosis is useful in certain types of amnesia. There is no real cure as yet for all types of amnesia, traditionally following remedies have helped to improve memory.
1. Almonds - Almond is considered brain food. Soak 10-12 almonds overnight in water. Eat the almond in the morning with breakfast. Make sure that you chew each almond at least 32 times before swallowing it.
2. Walnuts - Walnut is another brain food.Eat them with figs and raisins.
3. Phosphorus Rich Fruits - Fruits rich in phosphorus can improve amnesia. Fruits such as Apple, Figs, Grapes, and Oranges enhances memory.
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