Anterograde amnesia

Anterograde amnesia is a condition characterized by the inability to form new memories after a traumatic event or medical procedure, as well as difficulty retaining new information. It is a common disadvantage associated with certain medications and postoperative procedures.From: Statistical Rethinking [2020], HospiAvontuur: development of a serious game to help young children and their parents during the preparation for an admission at the hospital for elective surgery [2021]

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Published in Richard McElreath, Statistical Rethinking, 2020

Richard McElreath

In the year 1985, Clive Wearing lost his mind, but not his music.192 Wearing was a musicologist and accomplished musician, but the same virus that causes cold sores, Herpes simplex, snuck into his brain and ate his hippocampus. The result was chronic anterograde amnesia—he cannot form new long-term memories. He remembers how to play the piano, though he cannot remember that he played it 5 minutes ago. Wearing now lives moment to moment, unaware of anything more than a few minutes into the past. Every cup of coffee is the first he has ever had.

HospiAvontuur: development of a serious game to help young children and their parents during the preparation for an admission at the hospital for elective surgery

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Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2021

Jo Vrancken, Liesbeth De Gryse, Annemie I. F. Spooren

In order to reduce preoperative anxiety in children, several pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods have been proven useful. A common pharmacological intervention with proven effectiveness and efficacy is the administration of midazolam (Wright et al. 2007). The use of midazolam is however not without disadvantages (Bergendahl, Lönnqvist, and Eksborg 2006). Common disadvantages are amnesia, the lack of analgesic effect, hiccups, dose-dependent postoperative agitation, increased requirement of postoperative oxygen supplementation, long-term behavioural disturbances, disturbed memory/cognition, potential opioid-induced respiratory depression, bitter taste, nasal sting and anterograde amnesia (Kain et al. 2000; Watson and Visram 2003).

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