Talk:Retrograde amnesia
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[edit] Cause
What causes Retrograde Amnesia?
- From the article; "Retrograde amnesia is caused by trauma that results in brain injury."
[edit] Repitiion of famiiar events helpful?
It's noted in the article that familiar objects are often used to help stimulate moeory. At times, I've seen on television (like that's a good guide, I know :-) that repetition of familiar things will also help. Is this true? For instance, in The Jeffersons, George repeated his first date with Louise, which was a comical disaster, to help her get her memory back. Other sitcoms have used the "faimilar things" approach, like an episode of Diff'rent Strokes and the finale of Full House, but in the former, it could be aruged it was repeating a familiar event that helped trigger Mr. Drummond's memory of Arnold and Willis (threatening to ground them if they ran away), and in the latter, the Full House Chronology (http://howrude.org/show/chronology/) describes in a footnote that it's implied an accidental repeating of an earlier experienced situation helped Michelle recover her memory. (Being in a strange place and looking for older sister Stephanie for comfort; admittedly, not really a repeition per se like the one on "The Jeffersons" - probably more of a "familiar things" type event.)Somebody or his brother (talk) 21:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
