But on the other hand, you had amnesia before; you had the idea you might have told something about yourself in the book.
The only reason a man couldn't know everything was that too much, too fast, would overload the mind--and amnesia wiped the slate clean.
Hess’ amnesia does not prevent the defendant from understanding what happens around him and to follow the proceedings in Court.
I especially didn’t discuss, of course, as the Tribunal will appreciate—I didn’t discuss the quantum of amnesia here because I am putting that to the Tribunal.
Therefore the amnesia of Hess may end upon his being brought to trial.
His amnesia does not prevent him completely from understanding what is going on around him but it will interfere with his ability to conduct his defense and to understand details of the past which would appear as factual data.
When he was in England, as the reports show, he is reported to have made the statement that his earlier amnesia was simulated.
So we feel that so long as Hess refuses the ordinary, simple expedients, even if his amnesia is genuine, that he is not in a position to continue to assert that he must not be brought to trial.
But I respectfully suggest that a man cannot stand at the bar of the Court and assert that his amnesia is a defense to his being tried, and at the same time refuse the simple medical expedients which all agree might be useful.
His amnesia does not prevent him completely from understanding what is going on around him, but it will interfere with his ability to conduct his defense and to understand details of the past, which would appear as factual data.
De Vabres): I would like to know in what period the real amnesia of Hess applies.
The reports vary on whether this amnesia is founded on a pathological, a psychogenic, or hysterical basis, but they agree that it exists as an unsound mental condition.
Well," I replied, "of course there's a lot of talk now in the papers about aphasia and amnesia and all that stuff.
As a scientist, does the amnesia theory appeal to you, Craig?
The amount of amnesia present is used as a guide for repeated injections at intervals of one to one and a half hours.
If, however, the patient is in a state ofamnesia (lack of memory), this third injection is not commonly given until about one hour after the second injection.
Ribot has made it clear from his careful study of numerous cases of amnesia (loss of memory) that 'recollections return in an inverse order to that in which they disappear'.
Many even more marked examples of the law of regression in amnesia are given by M.
But she has no amnesia for the dream-content of her attack.
Usually there prevails total amnesia for the lethargic interval.
She has amnesia for the content of the individual attacks.
But in every case there is complete amnesia only during the first few minutes after the ecstasy.
Afterwards there was amnesia for the trance-conversation.
These states alternated for more than four years, during which consciousness showed continuity within the two states, but was separated by an amnesia from the consciousness of the normal state.
Amnesia for her motor expressions and for the changes in her surroundings is not always present.
He had a total and retrograde amnesia for the several months which included the journey to Australia, his sojourn there and the return journey.
Five weeks later, after a deep sleep, she returned to her earlier state with amnesia for the interval.
The question of amnesia after the attacks is unfortunately very obscure.
It was observed that these sufferers were subject to recurrent attacks of the amnesia bacillus.
Once it was thought that they were responsible for their actions; but now, thanks to the progress of medical science, the amnesia bacillus has been identified.
Destruction of the auditory speech centre is, as we have seen, commonly accompanied by more or less interference with vocal speech, a consequence of amnesia verbalis.
Destruction of the visual speech centre by obliterating the visual memories of words (amnesia verbalis) produces agraphia.
Amnesia verbalis is employed to designate failure to call up in the memory the images of words which are needed for purposes of vocal expression or silent thought.
When the visual speech centre is destroyed, the memories of the visual images of words are obliterated and interference with writing, a consequence of amnesia verbalis, results.
Claimed to have total or almost total amnesia for several months past during the year he was confined in the dungeon of the Concord Penitentiary.
It may last for hours or months, and there generally remains a more or less pronounced amnesia for the entire period of stupor.
Was frank in his statements, spoke of the amnesia mentioned above, and no delusions or hallucinatory experiences or physical symptoms present on admission could be detected.
He did not know how long he had been in this confused state and had a complete amnesia for the entire period.
He had a total amnesia of what had transpired during his stuporous and agitated states and a retrograde amnesia for several days prior to, and including the commission of the murder.
The amnesia and the hypalgesia, which the patient manifested on admission, are the two symptoms which may perhaps be considered as more or less hysterical in nature.
There was an ill-defined amnesia extending over several months past, and up to June 17, when he claimed to have first realized his whereabouts.
On September 3d, ten days after admission, the stupor disappears, and the only residue of the one-time psychosis is a complete amnesia for the entire period.
From this time until the later part of April, 1903, he had alternating periods of stupor and lucidity, with amnesia for the stuporous states.
After a short time recovery took place, the patients suddenly awoke as if from a dream and evidenced a more or less complete amnesia of the events which had transpired.
The symptomatology consists of an acute delirioid, hallucinatory episode, usually followed by a more or less complete amnesia which may go back far enough to include the experience which provoked the disorder.
I knew a man once who had amnesia and aphasia both, and it was six months before he got over it.
I've been looking up this aphasia-amnesia business, and quite often when the patient begins to recover his memory, it all comes back to him with a bang!
That peculiar phase of amnesia from which he is suffering is a precarious matter to deal with.
I asked the police to send for O'Donovan, and gave them the address of the Amnesia Agency, but O'Donovan denied the existence of such an institution, and said he got his living as secretary of the Shamrock Society.
Through unwillingness, or barely possibly real amnesia for the injury, Inez has not helped us to know the facts.
We cannot, then, decide about possible amnesia for this occurrence.
If he truly doesn't remember what he was supposed to forget, he doesn't even remember the amnesia suggestion and can take no satisfaction from his success because he is not aware that he has accomplished the posthypnotic suggestion.
Most students of hypnosis equate the phenomenon of amnesia with the somnambulistic state.
It is impossible for the subject to effectively suggest amnesia to himself.
Many subjects feel that they must experience amnesia before they can benefit from hypnotic suggestions.
I further point out to him that he has now experienced amnesia and will now make rapid strides.
The last report I had from them--about a month ago--shows that the original amnesia has been completely resolved.
As he sat there, pale as the twilight sky, the mists of amnesia lifted from him.
Amnesia--that's what the doctors call it--amnesia following some sort of a mental trouble.
He had perfect understanding of the general sweep of events in the past twenty years: his amnesia seemed confined to his own activities and the activities of those intimately connected with him.
Goat and I were colleagues in this rebel movement twenty-five years ago, before I was hit by a period of amnesia that I've just come out of.
If your amnesia is genuine, you might very well react in such a fashion," said the Chief reflectively.
We are now located within the limits of the amnesia belt and we are here to find out what did happen, if anything, and not to make wild guesses about it.
When I first read of these amnesia cases, I took them for coincidences--until you consulted me and gave me an opportunity to examine one of the victims.
There will be anotheramnesia case in the papers to-morrow.
I read up everything that I could find on amnesia victims during the past three months but it didn't throw much light on the matter to me.
If you have a little time to spare this afternoon you might drop around to the office of the Post and get them to show you all the amnesia cases they have had stories on during the past three months.
According to Seguin a reverend old gentleman affected with amnesia of words was forced to utter after the sentence, "Our Father who art in heaven," the words "let Him stay there.
The varieties of aphasia are:-- (1) Amnesia of speech.
There can be no doubt that Hess was in a state of virtually complete amnesia at the beginning of the trial.
On 15 November, in answer to Professor Delay’s offer, he definitely and firmly refused narcosis and explained to him that, in general, he would take all measures to cure his amnesia only upon completion of the Trial.
This increased progressively during February, until he returned to a state of virtually complete amnesia again about the beginning of March, and he has remained in that state ever since.
Therefore, the amnesia of Hess may end upon his being brought to Trial.
The amnesia is progressive, each day’s events being quickly forgotten.
The second period of amnesia started in February of 1945 and has lasted up through the present.
The amnesia symptom may disappear with changing circumstances.
At the beginning of relapse, Hess expressed anxiety over it, saying that no one would believe him this time after he had said he had faked his amnesia the first time.
According to Doctor Rees, the delusions of persecution and the amnesia were observed not to take place simultaneously.
But amnesia only depends on the rupture, often fortuitous and unimportant, of the chain of remembrances in the series of super-conscious or attentional states of cerebral activity.
In somnambulists, who are the most suggestible people, we can produce or suppress amnesia at will by a single word, and make them forget or remember what has passed.
This sentiment depends chiefly on the presence or absence of a variable degree of amnesia (want of memory to awaken).
We shall not, however, hesitate to assert that the existence of the infantile amnesia gives us a new point of comparison between the psychic states of the child and those of the psychoneurotic.
So far it has not occurred to us that this amnesiaought to surprise us, though we have good reasons for surprise.
We may say that without infantile amnesia there would be no hysterical amnesia.
Re amnesia and Shell-shock, Roussy and Lhermitte speak of amnesiaas ordinarily a phenomenon of confusion.
There was a complete amnesia as to the cause and duration of his condition.
The symptoms rapidly cleared up under suggestive conversation and did not return except for amnesia and slight emotional depression.
To be sure, the letters are written externally in sufficiently good form; the amnesia does not appear to extend to details.
Amnesia for the period August 26 to September 1 remained; all that he could say was that he had been thrown sidewise for some distance by the air pressure of the shell.
The amnesia may not merely be anterograde from the moment of shock, but may extend to a prolonged period prior to the accident.
Simple confusion involves slowness in thinking, andamnesia often anterograde from the moment of the shock.
The memory in these malarial cases often remains permanently altered and there may even be a retrograde amnesia, carrying back to facts prior to the gap and an anterograde amnesia relative to facts after the main gap.
There was amnesia again until he had been 48 hours in the clearing station at B----.
Instead of being like the toxic confusional amnesia, an anterograde amnesia of fixation, the Shell-shock amnesia is apt to be antero-retrograde.
There was an extensive amnesia covering a period of weeks.
A heavy cannon slides and grazes a man: Unconsciousness; stupor; amnesia (anterograde amnesia persistent).
Somnambulistic amnesia was obtained at once and without questioning him P.
The temporary amnesia slipped aside and the veil began to rise.
It would be bad enough for an amnesia victim to regain all his memory if given an unlimited length of time - this way, with people closing in on all sides, the whole damned thing seemed impossible.
Either amnesia had nothing to do with a man's gun knowledge, or he was a natural.
When you cracked up, a blow on the head, or something, must have created a temporaryamnesia and you thought you were Danson.
Now amnesia (in Greek, "forgetfulness") is literally any loss or defect of the Memory.
The doubling of personality, the amnesia and the misoneism so common among men of science, are the key to the innumerable stupidities which intrude into their writings: quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amnesia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amnesia; blackout; catalepsy; daze; fugue; reverie; somnambulism; stupor; trance
