Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study.

Greenberg, Daniel L

Eacott, Madeline J

Brechin, Don

Rubin, David C

England

2015-05-20T02:19:25Z

2005

Amnesia typically results from trauma to the medial temporal regions that coordinate activation among the disparate areas of cortex that represent the information that make up autobiographical memories. We proposed that amnesia should also result from damage to these regions, particularly regions that subserve long-term visual memory [Rubin, D. C., & Greenberg, D. L. (1998). Visual memory-deficit amnesia: A distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 95, 5413-5416]. We previously found 11 such cases in the literature, and all 11 had amnesia. We now present a detailed investigation of one of these patients. M.S. suffers from long-term visual memory loss along with some semantic deficits; he also manifests a severe retrograde amnesia and moderate anterograde amnesia. The presentation of his amnesia differs from that of the typical medial-temporal or lateral-temporal amnesic; we suggest that his visual deficits may be contributing to his autobiographical amnesia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15989939

S0028-3932(05)00015-1

0028-3932

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10108

eng

Elsevier BV

Neuropsychologia

10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.009

Adult

Amnesia

Brain Injury, Chronic

Encephalitis

Humans

Male

Middle Aged

Self Concept

Temporal Lobe

Vision Disorders

Visual Perception

Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study.

Journal article

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15989939

1493

1502

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Duke

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Psychology and Neuroscience

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

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