Talk:Lacunar amnesia

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Blackout?

Is this common following drunkardness? -Guest

DRAM?

"Some scientists now believe that memories effectively get rewritten every time they're activated. "

So much for believing that the mind isn't a computer. That describes DRAM refresh perfectly. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 03:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

just because some features of the brain and some features of the computer match, does not make the brain like a computer. really, the chinese room describes quite nicely, why a turing machine can not become a brain, why a brain is no turing machine.--217.82.120.174 16:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

There do not seem to be many facts on this page, just "hey wow neato" speculation. Several large pinches of salt are advised, and possibly the attention of experts.

It shouldn't be changed. Even though a lot of people seem to speculate that they are very similar, they are not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.106.11.134 (talk) 04:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge suggestion

I think these block quotes should be replaced with something else. References are at best, popular culture references and I don't find this very informative for someone wanting to learn about what are essentially black outs. --Linda.A.hoyt (talk) 02:22, 28 September 2011 (UTC) (talk) 01:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC) I do not suggest merging Selective memory loss into this article because the two topics are extremely different and although overlap at some points, are still taught and learned and treated differently. Even though, "selective amnesia" redirects here, it means that it is only one of the many symptoms, it's not the same thing as selective memory loss. --Koveras ^☭ 17:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Do we have any real sources for this topic, or is just a plot element of a movie? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 06:03, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

@Will - Have added Daniel Goleman - he uses the term Lacuna ("forgetting, and then forgetting that we have forgotten"). He uses the term throughout his book, Vital Lies, Simple Truths. He asserts that lacunas are a self defense mechanism against traumatic experiences. --Nonnb (talk) 11:59, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Selective memory as spin

"selective memory" redirects here altho maybe it needs a separate article. Selective memory is an important aspect of spin and can for example manifest itself by the airbrushing out of parts of history in communist china and russia or anybody conveniently forgetting an awkward past event during a trial..--Penbat (talk) 08:47, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

About Lacunar Amnesia

Lacunar amnesia has many different aspects to it. An episode of lacunar amnesia typically follows a lacunar infarct, or stroke. "In humans lacunar infarcts in the mesial and anterior regions of the thalamus are frequently associated with amnesic syndromes.” (Carlesimo) A lacunar infarct can also occur when one of the arteries that provide blood to the brain’s deep structures is blocked. The arteries of a lacunar stroke branch directly off of a large and heavily muscled main artery. High blood pressure can cause a lacunar infarct because it causes a pounding pulse in the arteries. The presence of an amnesic syndrome in patients with lacunar infarcts is strongly predicted by involvement of the mammillo-thalamic tract.

It is also seen that these lacunar amnesia episodes can be used as a defensive coping strategy during times when a person is confronting a stressful situation, usually during times of recalling a situation that occurred during childhood. In these cases, lacunar amnesia is thought to be the cause of a psychopathologic cue. (Thomas-Anterion). In her article Dissociative Amnesia, Thomas-Anterion also states that “the main disturbance consists of one or more episodes where the subject has an inability to recall important personal memories, usually traumatic or stressful.”

Other studies on autobiographical memory have shown that some emotional memories can be especially vivid and persistent, especially when related to posttraumatic stress disorder and flashback memories. These types of memories can bring on a strong sense of emotion that can result in an episode of lacunar amnesia. (Derouesne).

Treatment

Unfortunately, lacunar amnesia is a condition that cannot be fully cured. If a patient has forgotten a vast amount of things, they can start learning from the beginning when prompted by an occupational specialist. At this time there are hardly any medications that can cure lacunar amnesia and enhance a persons memory. (Amnesia)

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References

[1]
Carlesimo, G. (2011). Vascular thalamic amnesia: A reappraisal.Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 777-789.February 28, 2015.
[2]
Thomas-Anterion, C. (2012). Dissociative amnesia: A rare travel status in lost time. Medical and Psychological History, Psychiatric Review, 170(3), 180-184.February 28, 2015
[3]
Derouesne, C. (2000). Memory and affectivity. Revue Neurologique, 156(8-9), 732-737. February 28, 2015
[4]
Dr.Health.md (n.d.). Amnesia

Kmlose93 (talk) 03:31, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Kmlose93, if you are proposing this as text, it would be more helpful if you would put it in a sandbox, since it isn't really usable in its present form here. Dr.Health.md is not a source. Do you have PubMed identifiers on your other sources? Access dates are not needed on journal sources, but PMIDs would be helpful in evaluating the sources. For example, I cannot locate "Dissociative amnesia: A rare travel status in lost time. Medical and Psychological History" anywhere. Your citations need to be attached to text, and the text needs to be copyedited; all of that can be accomplished more efficiently in sandbox. Please respond to this post so that other editors know you are engaged. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:53, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

The plan for this entry is for it to go on the actual wikipedia page. We were told by our professor to post it first on the talk page and then add it to the already existing stub. As for the citations, our assignment is to cite these in APA format since we are a psychology class. Kmlose93 (talk) 16:00, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Kmlose93, thanks for responding! Your professor in here is no more and no less than one Wikipedia editor. You have not answered the questions or addressed the issues I've raised here. Could you please review my post above again? The text should not go in the article as written or sourced. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:16, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

I am not sure why you cannot find the one source I used, that is very puzzling to me. I went ahead and put this text into my sandbox like you suggested. As for citations being attached to the text, I am currently trying to figure out how to do that, but I am having a little bit of trouble getting my technology to cooperate. Do you have any suggestions for this? I am sorry for all the trouble. Kmlose93 (talk) 16:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again for responding. Here is a link to your sandbox: User:Kmlose93/sandbox. I will follow up with you on the talk page of your sandbox, at User talk:Kmlose93/sandbox. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)