Pathologic partial or complete loss of the ability to recall past experiences (AMNESIA, RETROGRADE) or to form new memories (AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE). This condition may be of organic or psychologic origin. Organic forms of amnesia are usually associated with dysfunction of the DIENCEPHALON or HIPPOCAMPUS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp426-7)
    

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An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.

Amnesia / edited by C.W.M. Whitty and O.L. Zangwill.

Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness, and family secrets / Luke Dittrich.

Sharpen your memory. Part 4, Information recall.

Me and my  memory. Part 3, The memory champion.

Traumatic amnesia / by W. Ritchie Russell.

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Amnesia / edited by C.W.M. Whitty and O.L. Zangwill.

Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness, and family secrets / Luke Dittrich.

Sharpen your memory. Part 4, Information recall.

Me and my memory. Part 3, The memory champion.

Traumatic amnesia / by W. Ritchie Russell.