What's the difference between amnesiac and amnesic?
Amnesiac
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Amnesic
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(a.) Of or pertaining to amnesia.
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(1) With respect to short-term amnesic effects, efficacy and tolerability Diazemuls was comparable to the conventional formulation of diazepam.
(2) While problem solving and visuoperceptual deficits seem to develop slowly during decades of alcoholism, the amnesic symptoms associated with Korsakoff's syndrome may appear acutely when severe malnutrition and alcoholism are combined.
(3) became globally amnesic following an attack of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis.
(4) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.
(5) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
(6) The results indicate that crying in response to the violation of a reward-expectation habit functions as an amnesic agent to produce accelerated forgetting.
(7) Premedicant determined by body weight was not correlated with the induction dose and amnesic effect.
(8) With regard to forensic assessment, it is significant that behaviour foreign to the personality could not be observed in amnesic episodes.
(9) For the cases with medial temporal lobe damage, evidence is reported in greater detail for H.M., who has been examined more than any other amnesic patient for more than 30 years now, as a considerable amount of literature has accumulated on his behavior in diverse situations.
(10) Priming effects were equivalent in amnesic patients and control subjects and they reached baseline levels within 2 hr.
(11) This case is therefore not an exception to the general rule that a severe and global amnesic state is only observed with bilateral lesions.
(12) Previous research demonstrated that a single amnesic patient could acquire complex knowledge and processes required for the performance of a computer data-entry task.
(13) Nalbuphine was shown to have analgesic, sedative, and amnesic properties similar to meperidine.
(14) The amnesic subjects were also impaired on the acquisition of a set of concurrent visual discriminations.
(15) In this article we consider a series of experiments that have attempted to clarify the nature of priming in amnesic patients and normal subjects.
(16) The data show that recall decayed significantly faster for the amnesic subjects than for controls, whereas the rate of forgetting for recognition memory was comparable in both groups.
(17) These peptides do not have anti-amnesic activity when given before acquistion.
(18) The first task was designed to simulate amnesic symptoms in normals.
(19) The causes and semiological formulae of these syndromes are varied, but they are all characterized by anterograde amnesia combined with a retrograde amnesic disorder and by elective damage of episodic and declarative memories, the semantic and procedural memories, as well as intelligence, being usually spared.
(20) There is some evidence that partial tolerance to amnesic effects develops with repeated doses of diazepam, but research with other benzodiazepines is inconclusive.