Can head trauma really cause amnesia?
We’ve all seen it depicted in a sitcom or in a Lifetime movie — a leading character suffers a bad fall or someone whacks him or her on the head and boom — the character suddenly doesn’t know his or her own name and can’t recognize loved ones standing inches away. Television shows that include this kind of memory loss are incorporating a condition called amnesia into their plot. Sometimes amnesia wipes out everything from a person’s past, and other times just bits and pieces are missing. It turns out there are several types of amnesia, and they can be caused by such things as disease, psychological trauma, and yes, even physical trauma such as a severe blow to the head. In most cases, amnes
