Talk:Amnesia
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Don't know much about editing wikipedia nor do I have time to write up something but there has been a HUGE ommision in regards to the base rate for nontramatic amnesia. Bellow are some of my notes on the subject ... you can work through them, find sources ect if you have the time
Baselines: The standard rate of something in the population … normally when we are talking about baseline they had to go find tons of people
Read & Lindsay (2000): looked for the base rates of what we are willing to call amnesia for nontramatic events, There where 2 conditions, one was reminicance the other was the enhanced condition, the normal was just told to think about it, ask the other group to ask your family look at pictures go back to your school This group was asked the same partial and complete amnesia Partial amnesia question: “Was there ever a period of time when you remembered less about the event then you do now?” Complete amnesia question: “Was there ever a period in which you had no memory of these events procedure: recall events; one event picked for extended retrieval first interview: questions about their current memory of events, plus; Was there ever a period of time when you remembered less of the event than you do now? Was there ever a period in which you had no memory of this event? 2 retrieval conditions for next 4 weeks: reminiscence vs.enhanced Reminiscence: spend as much time as possible thinking of event and recalling as many details as possible Enhanced: reminiscence instructions + ask your family look at pictures go back to your school - final interview: same questions from 1st interview
Results: partial or complete amnesia for 21% of people felt they had amnesia under one of the two questions Remincant: 35% (around) Enhance Condition: 80% (around)
Conclusion: It was though that the baseline for a nontramatic life would be 0 but this was far from the case. It proved that recalling amnesia was not evidence for a traumatic experience. The more you where asked to work on recalling past events the more likely you where to report having amnesia. The questions asked where the exact same questions a psychologist would ask some one to see if they had amnesia
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[edit] Silent flute man
I took out the statement about the silent flute man; that article was deleted here as not verifiable. It is still not verifiable so far as I can see, and unverifiable references to his "believed" condition shouldn't be used in other articles, either. Kafziel 23:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Amnestic
The word amnestic redirects here in several articles but the word isn't used anywhere in the article.
[edit] Vandalism
Just noticed the page seems to be rife with "dumbasses" and one or more people talking.
Back to normal now --Kevin Hanse (talk) 04:16, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- I just edited some vandalism out also. The guy might be simply changing computers to vandalize... Does anyone else think so? Kennard2 00:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wordings
I don't know whether it's right to label source amnesia a "memory disorder", isn't it a quite common phenomenon, even among the unimpaired?
whoops, didn't notice retrograde amnesia was already mentioned. My mistake. Just to be clear, although H.M.'s main problem was anterograde amnesia (he still presumed he was 18-something, and presenting him with a mirror would give him great distress, seeing his withered face), he also had light retrograde amnesia I believe (up until two weeks before the surgery in which his hippocampal area was removed). Super brockie 00:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dissociative amnesia
Just a passerby here. If this Amnesia page is a pseudo disambiguation page, why does Dissociative amnesia link to this same article? At the very least, if there's no separate page for it, it doesn't make much sense to link back to "amnesia." There's only about 2 sentences about it here. [unknown user]
separately, this page suggests that dissociative amnesia is different from retrograde. i think they're effectively the same, no? 71.234.109.192 03:05, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Curious about personalities
Juxtapozbliss 23:47, 30 June 2007 (UTC) Something i was wondering about, that perhaps someone could address for this article...what are the common effects on the personality of someone who experiences amnesia. Is their personality fairly consistent? Or does it sometimes change radically? It would be interesting to see what effect memory has on personality...or is it mostly driven by something else.
[edit] Incomplete Sentence
The line about Transient Global Amnesia is incomplete. It reads "Transient Global Amnesia is a well described medical and clinical phenomenon. This form of". Could someone who actually knows about this stuff fix it please? Sailorknightwing 03:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] fr:Amnésie sélective de guerre
Hello, have you an article such as "War's Amnesia: Amnesia about wars and Wars' crims". French have one article, explaning that people, government, soldiers may voluntary or unvolontary have a global amnesia about things happen in war time. Have you, on the english wikipedia, something about that ? and then may you add the french interwiki link. Thanks 61.228.29.8 (talk) 10:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] As legal defence
What about an Amnesia as a legal defence section? It has been used in many famous cases, such as Guenther Podola. What do people think? Malick78 (talk) 18:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)