What causes Anterograde Amnesia?
Anterograde amnesia is common among such patients who have surgically removed a portion of their brain to avoid or fight a more serious disorder. The surgeries normally include amputation of the “memory circuit” –known as “medial temporal lobe”. For example patients having seizures in this area gets both the sides of the structures eliminated. Even patients having tumor of the brain undergoing surgery often sustains injury of the hippocampus, or the surrounding parts of cortices followed by amnesiac syndromes. Alcoholics as well have an inclination to get amnesiac, the type is Anterograde amnesia. This situation is generally followed by the rise of BAC level above twenty five percent accompanied by hangover in most cases. A look into the pathophysiology of Anterograde Amnesia: The pathophysiology of the disease varies greatly in the locations on the brain that are damaged, to the level the damage occurred. The regions which come up in the discussions mostly are the “basal forebrain are
