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I've been researching this for a new story I've been working on. I was wondering what else people know about it. Do you forget absolutely everything or what? If you can help, that'd be great. Thanks in advance.

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sully474

I'm pretty sure that you forget everything, but only from a certain date forward. You remember who you are, but think that you are 10 years old. I'm not entirely sure, so you should get sombody elses opinion

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xayaxos

From what I know, which isn't really that much, there are different forms of amnesia. The worst would be to lose all memory, including of how to perform day to day functions, like walk, talk, eat ... everything, basically reducing you back to infancy.

The other form, I think, usually stems from a traumatic event - you forget everything just before or after that event until some unspecified point in the future ... I'm just basing this on having recently had concussion but remember nothing about immediately before or for hours afterwards - it's all brain injury after all. But I think you will need to do some more research on it to be sure ... try Google

I found this site as the third result for the search "amnesia":
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question672.htm

Reading through that I saw that there are actually many more types of amnesia. Read it, it will do you good

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gabriella

Your memory gets wiped out, and it's mostly the personal memories about who you are. Things like day-to-day functions aren't usually the memories that get wiped out... I always assumed that those were too far into the brain, and if you were unlucky enough to hit yourself real hard in that area, you'd be dead. But that was just my assumption.

And if television is even remotely correct, extremely familiar things start triggering your memory, bit by bit, until finally you just, boom, remember everything.

And another important tip - when you have amnesia, and you remember all your lost memories, than you instantly forget the times when you had no memory. So you would forget everything that happened while you had amnesia - that's instantaneous, though, and you remember it much sooner and easier than your actual identity.

I can't remember where I learned that, but I'm positive that it was a reliable source.

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abbenormal

Hi...Anterograde amnesia is the loss of memory of the events that occur after and injury.

Retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory for events occurring before a set time in a patient's life, often before the event that caused the amnesia. The condition may result from disease, brain injury, or an emotional injury.

I got all that out of Mosby's Medical Encly. Hope it helps.