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retrogenesis

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  • noun The degeneration of faculties in Alzheimer's disease in the reverse order of that in which they were developed as a child.

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retro- +‎ genesis, coined by Dr. Barry Reisburg.

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  • It was her form of lyric verse, subjective and unrhymed, a little songlike but with a rigor, a tradition of fixed order, only backwards, to test the presence of another kind of reversal, which a doctor nicely named retrogenesis.

    Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

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  • mialuthien commented on the word retrogenesis

    retrogenesis – the loss of mental abilities in old age in the opposite order in which they are gained in childhood, esp. as exhibited by Alzheimer's patients

    July 26, 2008