What is amnesia?
Amnesia is a kind of loss of memory. Forming new memories often become very difficult for people who have amnesia. And even remembering their past experiences and facts becomes a difficult task. However, they do remember their identity and mechanical skills. In any event, slight memory loss is a feature of aging. But amnestic disorder is signified when the memory loss is serious and the person cannot form new memories.
Symptoms of amnesia
Inability to develop new memories or loss of memory is the chief symptom of amnesia. Generally, when you have amnesia you won’t be able to recall specific events, occurrences, dates, facts, or particular details. These details may cover simple things like the name of your president or even what your morning meal was. You may still speak the languages you know fluently, and perform some mechanical operations like clapping.
Amnesia is of many different types. These are:
Anterograde amnesia
With anterograde amnesia, new memories can’t be formed. This situation can either be temporary or permanent. When it’s temporary, it means you have a blackout, for example, when you have had too much to drink. And when it’s permanent it means you can’t form new memories at all. An example is when the part of your brain called hippocampus has been damaged.
Retrograde amnesia
If you have this type of amnesia, you will lose your previously existing memories, starting with your most recently formed memories. Later it will gradually spread to your older memories like your childhood experiences. Dementia is the root cause of retrograde amnesia.
Infantile amnesia
This type of amnesia is common. Most people have difficulty remembering the events of their childhood before the age of five.
Transient global amnesia
You have transient global amnesia if you’re agitated and confused for several hours and can’t even remember the events that took place before that, and have no single idea that this confusion or agitation happened in the first place. Scientists suggest that this occurrence may be as a result of a temporary blockage of blood supplies to the brain that led to a blackout. Therefore, if you have amnesia you’re likely to experience memory loss which may be partial or total, temporary or permanent. You won’t be able to recognize faces that were previously familiar, and you may experience tremors or seizures.
Causes of amnesia
Anoxia
If the oxygen levels of your brain are insufficient, you will occasionally have a blackout leading to memory loss. However, the resultant memory loss may be temporary if anoxia is not sufficiently severe to lead to brain damage.
Dementia
Brain deterioration causes the loss of old memories. Alzheimer’s disease is a kind of dementia which causes you to lose recent memories first rather than the old.
Injury to hippocampus
The function of your brain hippocampus is to form memories, organize and retrieve them. It’s very fragile and a lot of energy flows there. Toxins and anoxia can impair your hippocampus.
Memory loss results when this has happened.
Head injuries
Stroke, severe head injuries, infections, tumors and concussions can damage the brain and disrupt memories for a long period of time.
Alcohol Abuse
While too much alcohol can lead to temporary memory loss from blackout, the long-term effect of alcohol abuse can give you the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome making it impossible to form memories.
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy against depression and some other conditions could cause retrograde and anterograde amnesia for a period of time.
Stress
Dissociative amnesia can develop when you’re too stressed out or traumatic. In this condition, your mind finds it too overwhelming to process certain information, thoughts or feelings it receives and simply rejects them.
Risk factors of Amnesia
Risk factors of amnesia include, brain surgery, stress, head injury, trauma, alcohol abuse, seizures, and stroke.
How is amnesia diagnosed?
Your neurologist or doctor will ask questions about the symptoms you experience. Family members will answer the questions as you’re not likely to remember the answers. They will arrange some cognitive exams, and perform imaging tests like MRI or CT scan to look for any signs of brain injury. Another test may be carried for seizure, while a further blood test may be conducted to check if you have nutritional deficiencies or if you’re infected.
Prevention of amnesia
If you practice the following health habits, there is a chance that the occurrence of blackout, dementia, stroke, concussions, and other risks that lead to memory loss will be minimized in your life.
Do not drink too much alcohol
Protect your head when playing outdoor games.
Always play games that challenge you mentally, read books, take lessons, explore new things in order to stay mentally active.
Maintain a healthy eating routine by consuming fruits, whole grains, vegetables, whole grains, and proteins with low fat.
Avoid dehydration.
Make use of seat belt while driving.
Treat infections quickly and urgently
Eat foods rich in vitamin E
Complications of Amnesia
Problem may develop while in school or at work
Treatment of Amnesia
How is amnesia treated?
Your doctor needs to focus on the problems that cause your amnesia.
Detoxification will normally cure amnesia developed from chemicals like alcohol. Amnesia developed from minor head injury will normally resolve once the head trauma subsides. If the head injury is a serious one your amnesia may never just go away.
Your doctor will prescribe medications that help you to do exercises, learn and support your memory. But if the amnesia is from dementia it cannot be cured.
Occupational therapy can help you learn new things and acquire memory for daily living. Memory aids on the other hand can help you organize and retrieve information.
Homeopathic Treatment of Amnesia
Treatment by homeopathy is not intended to get rid of your amnesia alone, but also to address its cause at the root. Homeopathy treats the individual as a whole, activating all the individual’s body capacities and immunity and energy flows, and blocking all the recesses that make the individual susceptible to amnesia. The homeopathic medications for amnesia include, but not limited to, Arnica Montana, Anacardium, Hyoscyamus, Belladonna, Plumbum Met, and Digitalis.
Acupuncture & Acupressure Treatment of Amnesia
Acupuncture treatment effectively restores all the behavioral and biochemical impairments that are related to CMS, which affect learning and memory. In selected cases acupuncture treatment becomes useful in that it intervenes to modify behavior.
Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Treatment of Amnesia
Psychotherapy focuses on the cause of trauma or stress which leads to amnesia. This therapy is well tolerated, and different types of it like cognitive behavioral, supportive, drug assisted, free association, hypnotherapeutic, and psychodermic have been successfully used to bring stability to the patient’s memory, as well as ameliorate symptoms.
Conventional and Allopathic Treatment of Amnesia
This motley array of drugs has been used in conventional treatment to improve memory retention of amnestic patients: Reminly, Exelon, Neo-tropin, Aricept, Akatinol, Eldepryl and Cognex.
Dietary and Herbal Treatment of Amnesia
Eat an apple daily, a teaspoon of honey, a cup of milk. Eat food rich in vitamin E.
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Ethos Healthcare
Email : contactethos@gmail.com
Phone: +91-11-26164016, 46026700
Mobile / Whatsapp: +91-9810155920
Website:
www.ethosbodyandmindclinic.com
and
www.ethoshealthcare.com
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Amnesia is a kind of loss of memory. Forming new memories often become very difficult for people who have amnesia. And even remembering their past experiences and facts becomes a difficult task. However, they do remember their identity and mechanical skills. In any event, slight memory loss is a feature of aging. But amnestic disorder is signified when the memory loss is serious and the person cannot form new memories.
Symptoms of amnesia
Inability to develop new memories or loss of memory is the chief symptom of amnesia. Generally, when you have amnesia you won’t be able to recall specific events, occurrences, dates, facts, or particular details. These details may cover simple things like the name of your president or even what your morning meal was. You may still speak the languages you know fluently, and perform some mechanical operations like clapping.
Amnesia is of many different types. These are:
Anterograde amnesia
With anterograde amnesia, new memories can’t be formed. This situation can either be temporary or permanent. When it’s temporary, it means you have a blackout, for example, when you have had too much to drink. And when it’s permanent it means you can’t form new memories at all. An example is when the part of your brain called hippocampus has been damaged.
Retrograde amnesia
If you have this type of amnesia, you will lose your previously existing memories, starting with your most recently formed memories. Later it will gradually spread to your older memories like your childhood experiences. Dementia is the root cause of retrograde amnesia.
Infantile amnesia
This type of amnesia is common. Most people have difficulty remembering the events of their childhood before the age of five.
Transient global amnesia
You have transient global amnesia if you’re agitated and confused for several hours and can’t even remember the events that took place before that, and have no single idea that this confusion or agitation happened in the first place. Scientists suggest that this occurrence may be as a result of a temporary blockage of blood supplies to the brain that led to a blackout. Therefore, if you have amnesia you’re likely to experience memory loss which may be partial or total, temporary or permanent. You won’t be able to recognize faces that were previously familiar, and you may experience tremors or seizures.
Causes of amnesia
Anoxia
If the oxygen levels of your brain are insufficient, you will occasionally have a blackout leading to memory loss. However, the resultant memory loss may be temporary if anoxia is not sufficiently severe to lead to brain damage.
Dementia
Brain deterioration causes the loss of old memories. Alzheimer’s disease is a kind of dementia which causes you to lose recent memories first rather than the old.
Injury to hippocampus
The function of your brain hippocampus is to form memories, organize and retrieve them. It’s very fragile and a lot of energy flows there. Toxins and anoxia can impair your hippocampus.
Memory loss results when this has happened.
Head injuries
Stroke, severe head injuries, infections, tumors and concussions can damage the brain and disrupt memories for a long period of time.
Alcohol Abuse
While too much alcohol can lead to temporary memory loss from blackout, the long-term effect of alcohol abuse can give you the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome making it impossible to form memories.
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy against depression and some other conditions could cause retrograde and anterograde amnesia for a period of time.
Stress
Dissociative amnesia can develop when you’re too stressed out or traumatic. In this condition, your mind finds it too overwhelming to process certain information, thoughts or feelings it receives and simply rejects them.
Risk factors of Amnesia
Risk factors of amnesia include, brain surgery, stress, head injury, trauma, alcohol abuse, seizures, and stroke.
How is amnesia diagnosed?
Your neurologist or doctor will ask questions about the symptoms you experience. Family members will answer the questions as you’re not likely to remember the answers. They will arrange some cognitive exams, and perform imaging tests like MRI or CT scan to look for any signs of brain injury. Another test may be carried for seizure, while a further blood test may be conducted to check if you have nutritional deficiencies or if you’re infected.
Prevention of amnesia
If you practice the following health habits, there is a chance that the occurrence of blackout, dementia, stroke, concussions, and other risks that lead to memory loss will be minimized in your life.
Do not drink too much alcohol
Protect your head when playing outdoor games.
Always play games that challenge you mentally, read books, take lessons, explore new things in order to stay mentally active.
Maintain a healthy eating routine by consuming fruits, whole grains, vegetables, whole grains, and proteins with low fat.
Avoid dehydration.
Make use of seat belt while driving.
Treat infections quickly and urgently
Eat foods rich in vitamin E
Complications of Amnesia
Problem may develop while in school or at work
Treatment of Amnesia
How is amnesia treated?
Your doctor needs to focus on the problems that cause your amnesia.
Detoxification will normally cure amnesia developed from chemicals like alcohol. Amnesia developed from minor head injury will normally resolve once the head trauma subsides. If the head injury is a serious one your amnesia may never just go away.
Your doctor will prescribe medications that help you to do exercises, learn and support your memory. But if the amnesia is from dementia it cannot be cured.
Occupational therapy can help you learn new things and acquire memory for daily living. Memory aids on the other hand can help you organize and retrieve information.
Homeopathic Treatment of Amnesia
Treatment by homeopathy is not intended to get rid of your amnesia alone, but also to address its cause at the root. Homeopathy treats the individual as a whole, activating all the individual’s body capacities and immunity and energy flows, and blocking all the recesses that make the individual susceptible to amnesia. The homeopathic medications for amnesia include, but not limited to, Arnica Montana, Anacardium, Hyoscyamus, Belladonna, Plumbum Met, and Digitalis.
Acupuncture & Acupressure Treatment of Amnesia
Acupuncture treatment effectively restores all the behavioral and biochemical impairments that are related to CMS, which affect learning and memory. In selected cases acupuncture treatment becomes useful in that it intervenes to modify behavior.
Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Treatment of Amnesia
Psychotherapy focuses on the cause of trauma or stress which leads to amnesia. This therapy is well tolerated, and different types of it like cognitive behavioral, supportive, drug assisted, free association, hypnotherapeutic, and psychodermic have been successfully used to bring stability to the patient’s memory, as well as ameliorate symptoms.
Conventional and Allopathic Treatment of Amnesia
This motley array of drugs has been used in conventional treatment to improve memory retention of amnestic patients: Reminly, Exelon, Neo-tropin, Aricept, Akatinol, Eldepryl and Cognex.
Dietary and Herbal Treatment of Amnesia
Eat an apple daily, a teaspoon of honey, a cup of milk. Eat food rich in vitamin E.
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Patient's Feedback
For Safe Natural Holistic Treatment, contact or visit:
Ethos Healthcare
Email : contactethos@gmail.com
Phone: +91-11-26164016, 46026700
Mobile / Whatsapp: +91-9810155920
Website:
www.ethosbodyandmindclinic.com
and
www.ethoshealthcare.com
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