Farah suffers major brain trauma in a train crash. As a result, she can no longer form new memories. She can recall the memories of her life before the crash quite accurately, but she cannot remember any new people she meets or any experiences she has afterward. Farah's condition is known as

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Melanie Bond

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17 July, 09:27

Farah suffers major brain trauma in a train crash. As a result, she can no longer form new memories. She can recall the memories of her life before the crash quite accurately, but she cannot remember any new people she meets or any experiences she has afterward. Farah's condition is known as

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Maren Krause · Answer 1

Answer: anterograde amnesia

Explanation:

Anterograde amnesia is a reduced ability to retain and keep new information. Anterograde amnesia affects the daily activities of affected people and also interfere with social and work activities because one might have challenges to create new memories.

Anterograde amnesia is the loss of ones ability to create new memories after an amnesia, which leads to a partial or complete inability of the person to recall the recent past, as the long-term memories before the event happened remain intact.

Skylar Lin · Answer 2

Anterograde amnesia

Explanation:

Anterograde amnesia is a type of amnesia that refers to the inability of a individual to create new memories or learn new things after an event such an accident. It differs from retrograde amnesia in that retrograde amnesia is the loss of ability of an individual to recall experiences of the past.

In anterograde amnesia, the individual is able to recall long term memories before the event occurs, but usually have a difficulty remembering new information, which could be partially or totally; for example, not being able to remember someone they just met.

From the explanation, Farah's condition is known as anterograde amnesia