What's the difference between amnesia and amnestic?

Amnesia


Definition:

  • (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (2) Flunitrazepam produced a dose-related incidence of amnesia slightly longer than with the equivalent (1 x 10) dose of diazepam.
  • (3) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
  • (4) The present research focuses on indirect memory tests as a potential means of discriminating between those who genuinely suffer from amnesia and those who are simulating.
  • (5) Associative agnosias are traditionally regarded as perceptual, and ideational apraxia as motor, deficits, but they can be understood as amnesias for generic knowledge, caused by bilateral or unilateral left-hemispheric cortical lesions.
  • (6) Amphetamine overcomes the amnesia caused by cycloheximide (CXM) provided it is administered closely following the learning trial.
  • (7) Pure blow-out fracture or comminuted facial fracture, double vision and amnesia emerged as additional factors which yielded an efficient scoring system with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 90% for the population upon which it was based.
  • (8) A is for America Vidal described his homeland as the United States of Amnesia.
  • (9) Nicky Holloway: Paul and I had to go back for the closing night of Amnesia in October.
  • (10) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
  • (11) The results indicate that prevention of haloperidol-induced retention impairment, by oxiracetam, may be due to a not yet defined protective action, common to other nootropic agents, on different types of experimental amnesias, rather than to a specific interaction with dopaminergic mechanisms.
  • (12) We demonstrate that domoate-treated rats exhibit a long-lasting anterograde amnesia for spatial information in the Morris water task.
  • (13) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
  • (14) The amnesia about the continent’s capacity for slaughter will be broken in The Hague on Thursday, where judgment will be passed on Radovan Karadžić for charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • (15) Studies of human amnesia and studies of an animal model of human amnesia in the monkey have identified the anatomical components of the brain system for memory in the medial temporal lobe and have illuminated its function.
  • (16) The present experiment shows that TTX induces retrograde amnesia even when applied to the PBN 48 h after PAR acquisition only if it is preceded by a 30-min confinement (extinction) or by a footshock (retraining) in the dark compartment.
  • (17) No cerebrovascular events occurred over a 1-to 5-year follow-up, suggesting that transient global amnesia with infarction or hemorrhage is not a strong predictor of further stroke.
  • (18) Amnesia was similar in the two groups up to the time of removal of the endoscope.
  • (19) Clinical symptoms of amnesia appear when amyloid induces neighbouring neuritic alterations: paired helical filaments and distant neuronal body lesions: neurofibrillary tangles.
  • (20) The results do not support the idea of a simple parallel between autism and mediotemporal lobe amnesias.

Amnestic


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing loss of memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since a special medical examination during the acute state is only possible as exception the patient's amnestically seizable behaviour obtains greatest importance in differential diagnosis.
  • (2) On the other hand, amnestic doses of FA only affected catecholamine levels.
  • (3) Two experiments were performed to determine the locus of the amnestic effects of scopolamine in man.
  • (4) The paper discusses the role of the noradrenergic and dopaminergic neurotransmitter systems for the amnestic effect of the clonidine + haloperidol combination, as well as for the favourable effect on the cognitive functions of the tested nootropic drugs adafenoxate and p-p.
  • (5) To investigate the ability of midazolam, a new water-soluble benzodiazepine preparation, noted for its potency, rapid onset of action, and amnestic qualities, to enhance patient acceptability of a follow-up liver biopsy, a "sedative dose" of midazolam (2 mg) or saline was administered immediately prior to and following a percutaneous liver biopsy.
  • (6) Traumatic twilight state on the one and amnestic episode (transient global amnesia) on the other side are as a rule easy to differentiate from the patient's age, his behavior during the acute state of disease and the kind of its improving.
  • (7) The positron emission tomography showed a decrease in cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism in the left thalamus and the ipsilateral frontal cortex (-20% to -12% of asymmetry index) both at day 11 and at 5 months after onset, although amnestic symptoms certainly improved during that period.
  • (8) A 28 years old man underwent a five-hour amnestic episode whereas the EEG showed normal curves.
  • (9) Propranolol-pretreated animals had impaired retention whether or not they received post-training amnestic injections of glucose; glucose had no effect on retention in these amnestic animals.
  • (10) Three experiments describe the amnestic qualities of 3,4-dehydro-DL-proline in a chick memory paradigm, the retrograde quality of this amnesia, and its existence in a mammalian (mouse) preparation.
  • (11) In all of the patients no significant drop in arterial oxygen saturation could be observed, but on the other hand, no real anxiolytic or amnestic effects either.
  • (12) The results indicate that the amnestic effect of ECS requires integrity of posterior hypothalamic pathways.
  • (13) This data suggests that the memory enhancement produced by peripherally administered CCK-8 involves the amygdala and that both CCK-8 and epinephrine interact with opioid amnestic mechanisms within the amygdala to alter memory processing.
  • (14) These results are not consistent with the hypothesis of amnestic effects of halothane anaesthesia; they are interpreted in terms of aversive effects.
  • (15) Amnestic effects in OC users and controls did not differ after any of the four drugs.
  • (16) The analgetic, anaesthetic and amnestic effect of ketamine is fairly good.
  • (17) In Experiment 3, AA resulting from an elevation in temperature was reversed by reheating "amnestic" subjects just prior to the 24-hr test.
  • (18) It also improved both electroconvulsive shock (ECS) induced amnesia (administered immediately after the amnestic treatment) and scopolamine induced amnesia (administered immediately after the acquisition trial).
  • (19) In patients over age 60 years, memory complaint was more common in depression than in dementing and amnestic disorders (73% v 43%), while in younger patients memory complaint was slightly more common in dementing and amnestic disorders than in depression (57% v 41%).
  • (20) EEG sleep and motor activity parameters provide useful pointers for differential diagnosis and treatment while having the added advantage of diminishing the clinician's almost exclusive dependency on amnestic data and the psychological observations made on the patient's behavior.

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