Question

Define anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia? Explain which amnesia (anterograde or retrograde) will be affected by an impairment to working memory.

Answer 1

Answer:

In these condition, It is related to the memory of the brain. This condition is due to any trauma to the head or diseases in the brain. which damage the brain and leads to a partial or complete loss of memory.

Anterograde amnesia: In this type of condition, the he/she affected will loss the Capacity to hold the new memory or can’t able to keep the new information after the injury in the brain.

Because after the brain damage or collapse, The brain will take some time to get the new memories of the brain.

Retrograde amnesia:

This condition is related to the past, after injury to the brain, he/she will loses the memories that happened in the past.

In these we can see that retrograde amnesia will be affected by an impairment to working memory.

working memory is the one already stored in the brain in the past and It will be useful to us when we need it. Ones is there impairment in the working memory will leads to the loss of past information (retrograde amnesia).