In this context, amnesia, rather than causing a loss of identity, because even though it is a feature of films, it manifests itself with the difficulty of generating new memories, incorporating new information, recovering previous memories or of rescue information that was previously familiar to us. It is, therefore, a deficit in the brain's memory functioning mechanism that causes partial or complete inability of the ability to retrieve or preserve information. Let us begin.Īmnesia is a disorder that involves partial or total loss of memory, that is, the ability to remember events or experiences that occurred in the past. in today's article we are going to define the clinical bases of amnesia and dementia, seeing where they are similar and, of course, where they are different.
In this context and with the desire to answer any questions you may have about this topic. Therefore, it is not surprising that there is, on a social level, a confusion between two concepts that we incorrectly consider as synonyms: amnesia and dementia. And, as always, where there is fear, there is ignorance. Thus, all those clinical conditions that, due to their neurological impact, can cause a more or less serious loss of memory, generate fear among people. May our memories and experiences fade from our memory. And so much so that one of the greatest human fears is losing her. What would become of us without this ability to store memories for a lifetime? Memory is one of the essential capacities that constitute our nature. But we will agree that of all the capacities that make us human, memory is one of the most important. The list of physiological attributes and mental abilities that have allowed us to become, for better and for worse, the dominant species on the planet is practically endless. Humans are a feat of biological evolution for many reasons.