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  • adjective medicine Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
  • adjective medicine Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.

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  • adjective of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma

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Examples

  • Feinstein worked with a group of five patients who had a rare condition called anterograde amnesia, the same one that afflicted the protagonist of Memento.

    2010 April | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

  • Feinstein worked with a group of five patients who had a rare condition called anterograde amnesia, the same one that afflicted the protagonist of Memento.

    Memory Zapping in the Future: Not So Easy | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

  • Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh scientists gave people material to memorize — once after being injected with a placebo and once after an injection of midazolam, a drug that causes short-term anterograde amnesia, in which the ability to form new memories is inhibited, while leaving old memories unaffected.

    Study Finds Clues About Memory Formation | Impact Lab 2006

  • Lesions in the hippocampal formation often lead to a disorder known as anterograde disorientation, in which the ability to learn new routes is impaired.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2008

  • Five patients with severe anterograde amnesia, which largely prevents the creation of new memories, watched a 19-minute video of film clips about death and loss.

    Blueberries Slow Tumor Growth 2010

  • She had an accident when she was younger which resulted to the loss of use of her left eye and a severe case of a form of anterograde amnesia (her recent memory can only last for 13 hours).

    ef – a tale of memories « Undercover 2008

  • DiI, an anterograde tracer, was injected into the nodose ganglia.

    In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007

  • The belligerent crazification and the blazing straw men are reason enough to love the guy, but the best thing about Fred Hiatt is his severe case of anterograde amnesia.

    Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Call It a Comeback 2007

  • Memento (2000): Presaging the somber vibe of the post-9/11 world, anterograde amnesia as a hook for the most cerebrally challenging thriller of the decade.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • EP has two types of amnesia — anterograde, which means he can't form new memories, and retrograde, which means he can't remember old memories either, at least not since 1960.

    Boing Boing 2007

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