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Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology.

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Rubin, DC; Greenberg, DL
April 28, 1998

We describe a form of amnesia, which we have called visual memory-deficit amnesia, that is caused by damage to areas of the visual system that store visual information. Because it is caused by a deficit in access to stored visual material and not by an impaired ability to encode or retrieve new material, it has the otherwise infrequent properties of a more severe retrograde than anterograde amnesia with no temporal gradient in the retrograde amnesia. Of the 11 cases of long-term visual memory loss found in the literature, all had amnesia extending beyond a loss of visual memory, often including a near total loss of pretraumatic episodic memory. Of the 6 cases in which both the severity of retrograde and anterograde amnesia and the temporal gradient of the retrograde amnesia were noted, 4 had a more severe retrograde amnesia with no temporal gradient and 2 had a less severe retrograde amnesia with a temporal gradient.

Duke Scholars

Publication Date

April 28, 1998

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Time Factors
  • Neocortex
  • Memory
  • Humans
  • Encephalitis
  • Craniocerebral Trauma
  • Cerebral Infarction
  • Amnesia
 

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Rubin, D. C., and D. L. Greenberg. “Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology.,” April 28, 1998.
Rubin, D. C., and D. L. Greenberg. Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Apr. 1998.
Rubin DC, Greenberg DL. Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 1998 Apr 28;

Publication Date

April 28, 1998

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Time Factors
  • Neocortex
  • Memory
  • Humans
  • Encephalitis
  • Craniocerebral Trauma
  • Cerebral Infarction
  • Amnesia