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Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study.

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Greenberg, DL; Eacott, MJ; Brechin, D; Rubin, DC
2005

Amnesia typically results from trauma to the medial temporal regions that coordinate activation among the disparate areas of cortex that represent the information that make up autobiographical memories. We proposed that amnesia should also result from damage to these regions, particularly regions that subserve long-term visual memory [Rubin, D. C., & Greenberg, D. L. (1998). Visual memory-deficit amnesia: A distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 95, 5413-5416]. We previously found 11 such cases in the literature, and all 11 had amnesia. We now present a detailed investigation of one of these patients. M.S. suffers from long-term visual memory loss along with some semantic deficits; he also manifests a severe retrograde amnesia and moderate anterograde amnesia. The presentation of his amnesia differs from that of the typical medial-temporal or lateral-temporal amnesic; we suggest that his visual deficits may be contributing to his autobiographical amnesia.

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2005

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Elsevier BV

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Vision Disorders
  • Temporal Lobe
  • Self Concept
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Encephalitis
  • Brain Injury, Chronic
 

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Greenberg, D. L., Eacott, M. J., Brechin, D., & Rubin, D. C. (2005). Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.009
Greenberg, Daniel L., Madeline J. Eacott, Don Brechin, and David C. Rubin. “Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study.,” 2005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.009.
Greenberg DL, Eacott MJ, Brechin D, Rubin DC. Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study. 2005;
Greenberg, Daniel L., et al. Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study. Elsevier BV, 2005. Dspace, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.009.
Greenberg DL, Eacott MJ, Brechin D, Rubin DC. Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study. Elsevier BV; 2005;

DOI

Publication Date

2005

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Vision Disorders
  • Temporal Lobe
  • Self Concept
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Encephalitis
  • Brain Injury, Chronic