Define amnesia and describe retrograde and anterograde amnesia

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Amnesia is severe loss of explicit memory. One type is retrograde amnesia, in which individuals lose their purposeful memory for events before whatever trauma induces memory loss. Mild forms of retrograde amnesia can occur fairly commonly when someone sustains a concussion. Usually, events immediately before the concussive episode are not well remembered. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to remember events that occur after a traumatic event.

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