PTSD stands for Post-traumatic stress<span> disorder. </span>Some people may be more vulnerable to PTSD because they have limbic system, which floods the body with stress hormones. The limbic system is a brain structure responsible for <span>emotions, behaviors, motivation, long-term memory, and olfaction.</span>
Answer: Anterograde amnesia
Explanation: Anterograde amnesia is the mental situation in which an individual persist the past memories in mind but is not able to remember new and recent memories after amnesia incident.
According to the question, Lucy is suffering from anterigrade amnesia after the car accident. She can retain all the memories of past life before accident but not able to remember recent memory of things done at present time by her.Thus , even if she tries to remember those moments every night she is not able to do so.