Question

Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia?

Answer 1

Answer: B. Robert could remember the good old days but couldn't remember what he'd eaten for breakfast.

Explanation: Anterograde amnesia is simply a subset of amnesia, a person experiences anterograde amnesia when the hippocampus section of the brain is damaged, this leads to the inability of that individual to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.

Although people suffering from anterograde amnesia can quit remember memories from their far past but find it difficult in remembering memories from their immediate past.

Robert remembers the long term memories from his child hood but he can't remember the immediate past memory of what he had eaten for breakfast, i.e he cannot store new memories. This is called anterograde amnesia.