Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect
A. a failure of memory consolidation.
B. disrupted long-term potentiation.
C. temporary post-traumatic stress disorder.
D. Korsakoff's syndrome.
Answer: A
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