AMNESIA. - Loss of the faculty of remembering, due to alteration of the traces (symbols) impressed in the nerve centers in relation to the individual's representation of external objects. Retrograde or anterograde, partial (lacunar) or total, temporary or permanent, it may depend on purely functional and passing causes (fatigue, exhaustion, toxic or infectious conditions) or on serious organic alterations of the nerve centers (senile dementia, destructive lesions of the encephalon). It may affect in isolation or globally the faculties of forming, retaining, and recognizing mnemonic traces; it impoverishes the patrimony of the intelligence, without however disturbing associative, logical, and critical activity.
BibliographyO. Bumke and O. Foerster, Neurologie u. Psychiatrie, VI, Berlin 1936.
BIBL.: O. Bumke and O. Foerster, Neurologie u. Psychiatrie, VI, Berlin 1936.
De, Ninno Giuseppe. “Amnesia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1092. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/amnesia.
MLA
De, Ninno Giuseppe. “Amnesia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1092. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/amnesia.
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@incollection{ec1_amnesia,
author = {De, Ninno Giuseppe},
title = {Amnesia},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1092},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/amnesia}
}
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