memory defect

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• memory abnormality — Introduction       any of the disorders that affect the ability to remember.       Disorders of memory must have been known to the ancients and are mentioned in several early medical texts, but it was not until the closing decades of the 19th… …   Universalium

• Memory — • Memory is the capability of the mind, to store up conscious processes, and reproduce them later with some degree of fidelity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Memory     Memory    …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Defect — De*fect , n. [L. defectus, fr. deficere, defectum, to desert, fail, be wanting; de + facere to make, do. See {Fact}, {Feat}, and cf. {Deficit}.] 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; opposed to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• retention defect — (in psychology) a memory defect in which items that have been registered in the memory are lost from storage. It is a feature of dementia. * * * a defect in the power of recalling or remembering names, numbers, or events …   Medical dictionary

• retention defect — (in psychology) a memory defect in which items that have been registered in the memory are lost from storage. It is a feature of dementia …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Amnesia — An impairment or lack of memory. Amnesia after a trauma event can be either antegrade (lack of memory related to events occurring after the event) or retrograde (lack of memory related to events occurring before the event). * * * A disturbance in …   Medical dictionary

• Sergei Korsakoff — Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff ( ru. Сергей Сергеевич Корсаков; January 22 1854, Vladimir May 1 1900, Moscow) was a Russian neuropsychiatrist.Sergei Korsakoff was the first of great Russian neuropsychiatrists. He studied medicine at the University… …   Wikipedia

• shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders. Also called shock treatment. [1935 40] *… …   Universalium

• Korsakoff's syndrome — or Korsakoff syndrome n KORSAKOFF S PSYCHOSIS * * * (Korsakoff s psychosis) an organic disorder affecting the brain that results in a memory defect in which new information fails to be learnt although events from the past are still recalled;… …   Medical dictionary

• Korsakoff's syndrome — an organic disorder affecting the brain that results in a memory defect in which new information fails to be learnt although events from the past are still recalled; disorientation for time and place; and a tendency to unintentionally invent… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Combat stress reaction — Shell shock and shell shocked redirect here. For other uses, see Shell shock (disambiguation). Image from World War I taken in an Australian dressing station near Ypres in 1917. The wounded soldier in the lower left of the photo has a dazed… …   Wikipedia