While anterograde amnesia can be temporary, dementia is permanent. Diseases like Alzheimer's do often involve memory loss, but there are some distinct differences. Filling in gaps in your memory with fabricated events (confabulation)Īnterograde amnesia is often mistaken for other conditions that involve cognitive decline, like dementia, says Hascalovici.Forgetting things that happened just hours or moments before.Inability to remember new acquaintances made after amnesia set in.Trouble remembering life events that happened after the amnesia-causing event, like a move or job change.Other areas near the hippocampus can also be damaged, says Hascalovici, including the basal forebrain, fornix, and medial temporal lobe.Īccording to Hascalovici, these are some of the most common symptoms associated with anterograde amnesia: The hippocampus is a part of the brain located in the inner temporal lobe, which plays a key role in the long-term storage of new memories. SymptomsĪs with other forms of amnesia, anterograde amnesia often happens when the hippocampus is damaged, says Hascalovici. Here's what to know about the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for anterograde amnesia. She’s at peace, somehow, with what’s going on.Note: A small 2015 study showed that it's not uncommon for patients with anterograde amnesia to also have retrograde amnesia. “She doesn’t question why her brothers are going to school and she doesn’t throw on a bookbag. “She doesn’t question me about teaching from home,” Jennifer said. But we care deeply about the most important question when it comes to health: why? Why was her digestive system not working?”Īnd while Caitlin hasn’t regained her memory, she appears to have some concept of her situation. So, has Caitlin had digestive challenges? Absolutely, they were rampant when we first started and she’s been on this journey for four years and it never quite fully was addressed outside of maybe taking a medication to hopefully get things moving. “And when the nervous system gets in fight-or-flight, think of a caveman running from a bear: it’s not important to digest breakfast if I’m about to be breakfast. “The nervous system controls the inflammation process, it controls our hormones and adrenals, it controls our digestive system, it controls our energy, our emotions, our sleep – everything,” Day said. But first, he needs to find ways to get Caitlin’s nervous system to calm down. Jason Day is the lead chiropractor in her care and he believes his work can eventually help her body heal. “I don’t know if it’s blood flow to the brain, endorphins or whatever, but it is very therapeutic for her,” her father Chris said.ĭr. “You just go through everything wondering, ‘What did we miss? Where did we go wrong? What do we do, next?’ You second guess everything that you’ve done and then you push that to the side and see where we can go, now,” Jennifer said.Īfter years of being in too much pain to run – likely from the Lyme disease they think Caitlin developed around the time of the accident when he got hit in the head – she hasn’t done much moving … rarely leaving the house, outside of her treatments and tending to her garden.
Her memory resets about every 60 seconds now.Īs Jennifer looks back on these four years, she says it can be easy to get caught up in both what’s happened and what they haven’t done in their search for healing for Caitlin. That was the day, four years ago, that her daughter, Caitlin, got hit on the head during cross country practice and developed a rare form of amnesia from the blow. 12 approaches, she dreads every moment leading up to it. (WGHP) - Fall used to be Jennifer Little’s favorite time of year. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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