Faith had brain surgery to remove a small tumor from her temporal lobe. While recovering from the surgery Faith appeared to be f
ine, and she was able to talk about events from both her childhood and just before the surgery. However, she really cannot remember anything that has happened since the surgery. Faith's memory difficulties are consistent with those seen in
Anterograde amnesia is the partial or complete inability of a person to remember recent event or new memories in which the person can only remember past or old event that has happened to him/her before having AMNESIA.
This condition is often permanent and it is caused by damage to the hippocampus part of the brain.
Symptoms of anterograde amnesia primarily affects recent past event which the memory cannot process.
For example a person who has ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA may not remember the face he/she had recently saw or recollect the phone number given to him/her but can vividly remember old faces they have seen in the past including the phone numbers they are have collected in the past.
Therefore Faith's memory difficulties are consistent with those seen in ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA.
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