Amnesia

Lost of ability to memorize data is known as amnesia. In easy words, amnesia is the loss of memory. Also Amnesia is referring as inability to recollect information that is accumulated in memory. This state is due to effect of health problems or events in life, like accident. It may result of brain from injuries or head injuries, or a side effect of some disease, like alcoholism, psychological trauma or tension.

There are some different types of Amnesia:

Anterograde amnesia

In this type of amnesia the sufferer loses all its senses and not able to remember the current events after the disease affected the patient.

Emotional or hysterical amnesia

This is temporary state that won’t be long lasting and is mainly caused due to psychological trauma.

Lacunar amnesia

Blockage of mind for a specific event is known as Lacnuar amnesia.

Korsakoff syndrome

This is basically a chronic state of alcoholism and caused due to the continuous intake of alcohol.

Posthypnotic amnesia

This type of amnesia is because of the very long hypnotic condition that keeps your mind weak to remember the events that happened in the duration of hypnosis.

Retrograde amnesia

It is a series of loss events, which took place before the start of trauma or disease causing amnesia.

Transient global amnesia

This type of amnesia mainly occurs to persons who are middle-aged or older and it is case of short-term memory loss lasting for few minutes.