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Meaning amnesia meaning

What does amnesia mean?

amnesia

(= blackout) partial or total loss of memory he has a total blackout for events of the evening

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Topics amnesia topics

What do people use amnesia to talk about?
  • What words refer to forgetting many things because of a head injury?

Examples amnesia examples

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Simple sentences

I have amnesia.

Movie subtitles

His symptoms are consistent with partial amnesia.
An amnesia case.
Loss of blood, and apparent amnesia.
It's not amnesia. What is it, then?
An interesting case: amnesia.
I thought you two had amnesia and forgot where you parked me.
Good. I'll put her down as an amnesia case.
This was a case of crypto-amnesia.
Yes, I know, amnesia.
Our impostor, I'm almost certain, is an amnesia case.
Obviously, a case of amnesia. He hadn't the faintest notion of who he was or what he was doing.
Amnesia case of that sort with the police after him, it's an obvious suicide.
You yourself taught me what Freud says. A man cannot do anything in amnesia that his real character wouldn't have done.
You've got amnesia, and you've got a guilt complex. You don't know if you are coming or going from someplace, but Freud is hooey. This you know.
It's not amnesia.
Which is my reason for explaining so carefully Wundt-Farbhalf's theory of the symptoms of hyper-amnesia and the hypnagogic state.
Obviously, a case of amnesia.
If I don't know a patient with amnesia when I see one, what do I know?
You've got amnesia, and you've got a guilt complex.
His horror of them means, of course, that they are immediately connected with the cause of his amnesia.
Amnesia.
Amnesia!
That's what it is, amnesia!
Listen, Larry, don't get me wrong, I'd like to lay my hands on some of that amnesia, but if you give yourself away to this dame, we lose a fortune.
How is your amnesia?
Larry's had this here now amnesia.
Duke, you don't know amnesia, it just does things to a fellow.
How did Amnesia come in, Doctor?
Amnesia wasn't in the race.
He's had an attack of amnesia.
You certainly can kick that amnesia around.
I thought maybe you were an amnesia victim or something.
What do you know about amnesia?
Amnesia has definitely set in.

News and current affairs

Collective punishment also means not only a type of amnesia by Italians and Romanians about what happened under fascism, nazism, communism, but also for their own national histories.
When it comes to the treaty to reform the Union's institutions, which will be finalized in November, recent events suggest that amnesia does play a central role.
Without a fundamental turnaround in American political consciousness, the unilateralist amnesia of US foreign policy will have far-reaching consequences and leave a huge vacuum in the global system.
Strikingly, both advocates and skeptics of the concept of traumatic dissociative amnesia adduce the same studies when defending their diametrically opposed views.
Advocates of traumatic amnesia misconstrue these reports as showing that victims are unable to remember the horrific event itself.
Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
Incomplete encoding of a trauma must not be confused with amnesia - an inability to recall something did get into memory.
Victims of psychogenic amnesia suddenly lose all memory of their previous lives, including their sense of personal identity.
In contrast, the phenomenon of dissociative amnesia supposedly entails victims' inability to remember their traumatic experiences, not an inability to remember their entire lives or who they are.
It is inability to remember that constitutes amnesia.
These cases count as recovered memories of sexual abuse, but not as instances of traumatic dissociative amnesia.
But the current frenzied focus is marked by considerable amnesia.

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