(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.
Concussion
Definition:
(n.) A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.
(n.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.
(n.) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(2) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(3) Leukotrienes may play a role in the early inflammatory response following concussive ocular injuries.
(4) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
(5) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
(6) Fifty per cent of the patients involved suffered a blunt head or brain injury, the others a brain concussion or space-occupying haemorrhage.
(7) 55 patients had an RT test performed 1-5 days after concussion.
(8) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
(9) The value of the P300 evoked potential as a measure of cerebral concussion was studied in 20 patients with minor head injury and compared with the data from 20 normal subjects.
(10) Analysis of the response curves over time suggested two processes: an improvement in the concussed group and a slowing in the control group.
(11) For a guy that played linebacker for 20 years, somewhere in there he would've had a concussion."
(12) The Chiefs lost key running back Jamaal Charles to a suspected concussion early but it did not appear to affect KC as Alex Smith threw four touchdown passes and Knile Davis ran for a score to help the Chiefs to a 38-10 lead early in the third quarter of the wild card game.
(13) Spinal cord injuries were classified as concussions if they met three criteria: 1) spinal trauma immediately preceded the onset of neurological deficits; 2) neurological deficits were consistent with spinal cord involvement at the level of injury; and 3) complete neurological recovery occurred within 72 hours after injury.
(14) These concomitant lesions comprise the perilymph fistula syndrome (PLFS) with a unique profile of neurological, perceptual, and cognitive deficits resembling a post-concussion injury.
(15) • Parts two and three to follow online on Saturday and in Sunday's Observer The reminder card now handed out by Peter Robinson, about recognising concussion in rugby union.
(16) Post-concussion symptoms were more frequent in women, in those injured by falls, and in those who blamed their employers or large impersonal organisations for their accidents.
(17) In general, sprains and strains account for 40% of injuries, contusions 25%, fractures 10%, concussions 5% and dislocations 15%.
(18) Our method of testing detects no lingering or permanent change after a single concussion.
(19) Forty-four consecutive patients with concussion for whom a medico-legal report had been written were followed up for 3-4 years after their accidents.
(20) Using slow motion filmstrips of boxing ring knockouts, we established a grading system for concussion and duplicated these grades in nonanesthetized rats.