Talk:Amnesia

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 January 2020 and 25 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cjpeterson222.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 September 2019 and 18 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Carys Bratt.

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Added new information in Childhood Amnesia
I added new information about Childhood Amnesia including how cultural could be different and the age at which most people cannot remember. I also added a new source: 

Carys Bratt (talk) 16:43, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Additional information for treatment and dissociative amnesia
I was able to find two more resources. First I added some more information concerning about the importance of treatment for amnesia and how if varies from the type of amnesia a person has as well as the treatment that is administered to them. The source I added was this one: Services, Department of Health & Human. "Amnesia". www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 3 December 2019. I was also able to see some interesting topics with dissociative amnesia that was not previously mentioned. Namely, I found a source mentioning that the effects are permanent as well as some of the difficulties one may have with organic amnesia. The source I used was this one: Bourget, Dominique, and Laurie Whitehurst. "Amnesia and crime." Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online 35.4 (2007): 469-480. Carys Bratt (talk) 09:02, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

More sources and information about source amnesia and semantic amnesia
As I continued to do more research, I decided that there were a couple of sections that I felt needed just a bit more information as a summary. This was mostly due to the fact that it felt that the definition of certain types of amnesia felt incomplete with just one sentence describing them. So, I added at least one more sentence for the section on source amnesia and also semantic amnesia. The sources that I used are as follows: https://www.evl.uic.edu/sugimoto/memSrc.html. and "Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia". Memory and Aging Center. Retrieved 3 December 2019.

Carys Bratt (talk) 09:42, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Another citation and more detail for posthypnotic amnesia
While I continued to find some resources for amnesia, I was interested in the concept of posthypnotic amnesia. I was able to find a study that was conducted in 2008. There appeared to be from interesting information regarding the ability to shape the way that adolescents were able to remember or forgot due to hypnosis. One of the possible results is due how selective amnesia could be due to hypnosis. I found it to be very interesting to see how there appeared to be some type of form of repression that occurred due to the hypnosis. Another reason I used this study as a source is because of the characteristics that were used to define what posthypnotic amnesia is can how it affects an individual. The source that I found was the following case study: Enea, Violeta, and Ion Dafinoiu. "Posthypnotic amnesia and autobiographical memory in adolescents." Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies 8.2 (2008): 201.

Carys Bratt (talk) 10:26, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Clarifying the signs and symptoms of amnesia
I just added a couple of symptoms of amnesia. The previous information was decent, but not entirely clear about the common symptoms of amnesia. The resource that I used is one that I found and cited for the treatment section of this article: Services, Department of Health & Human. "Amnesia". www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 3 December 2019.

Carys Bratt (talk) 10:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Korsakoff's syndrome source
I was able to find a source that mentioned the types of amnesia that are associated with Korsakoff's syndrome. Within the source it also mentioned how there could be some connections with other forms of memory problems and how problems can occur within the medial temporal lobe and/or the frontal lobe. The source that I am using is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140893/

Carys Bratt (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Photo change
The first picture that opens the article is in another language. I believe it would be better if another picture was found for clarity.

What do you think? DaasWiki (talk) 07:38, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

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