What's the difference between flashback and retrospection?

Flashback


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
  • (2) The flashbacks also screened childhood and adolescent conflicts activated by the job loss.
  • (3) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
  • (4) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (5) The hypothesis that flashbacks can be psychologically determined symptoms is supported by the dynamics of the case and the course of treatment.
  • (6) It exists only as carefully structured piece of literature, told in flashback and conversation.
  • (7) The trailer comprises a harrowing clip from the film in which the sniper must choose whether to gun down an Iraqi woman and child who appear to be mounting a suicide attack, interspersed with flashbacks to the soldier’s life in America with his own wife and children.
  • (8) The similarity of flashbacks to panic attacks suggests treatment trials with monoamine oxidase inhibitors or imipramine for these selected symptoms.
  • (9) No relation between the flashbacks and protracted psychotic development could be established.
  • (10) Subjects with and without previous flashbacks participated.
  • (11) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
  • (12) We have postulated that indeed the flashbacks might represent an amalgam of abnormal neuronal firing along with the expression of a dynamically charged event.
  • (13) By and large, however, this was a prolonged flashback to Madrid in November 2004 when the comprehensive superiority of Aragonés's team in a 1-0 win was nullified purely because the racist abuse by the Bernabéu crowd was so much more significant a matter.
  • (14) The phenomenon of delayed recurring hallucinations is a rare but dangerous side-effect of ketamine, not unlike LSD flashbacks.
  • (15) Everything else is flashback, rewinding to show the drip-drip of humiliations that turn a listless pizza delivery man into a killer with nothing to lose.
  • (16) Simple correlations and multiple regression analyses both showed extent of marijuana use to be the only drug variable significantly related to acid flashbacks.
  • (17) The lactate infusions resulted in flashbacks in all seven patients and panic attacks in six patients.
  • (18) In my ongoing campaign against the past, I’ve weighed up the evidence – extracted largely from those who still suffer chocolate and sunrise orange swirly carpet-related flashbacks – and concluded that it was shit.
  • (19) Each has had his memory completely wiped, including our hero Thomas, who has terrifying flashbacks he can’t figure out.
  • (20) This study examined the nature and significance of these flashbacks in a work-injured population.

Retrospection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (3) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (4) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (5) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (6) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
  • (7) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
  • (8) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
  • (9) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (10) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
  • (11) Ultrasonography of 4 cases of intussusception in children with proven lead points were reviewed retrospectively.
  • (12) This information has been collected in Finland retrospectively from waterworks, and will be correlated with the Finnish Cancer Registry data.
  • (13) A retrospective review of 388 patients who presented to the Mayo Clinic for treatment of endometrial carcinoma between 1979 and 1983 was performed and the surgical and pathologic observations were documented.
  • (14) In a retrospective study of 610 patients the role of routine gastroscopy prior to cholecystectomy was investigated.
  • (15) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.
  • (16) This was a retrospective study of 285 patients with coronary heart disease and 393 healthy subjects.
  • (17) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
  • (18) Patients with femoral neck fractures treated at a department of orthopedic surgery in a university hospital and one retrospective control sample from a department of general surgery in a county hospital.
  • (19) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
  • (20) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).

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