retrograde amnesia

noun

a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.

retrograde amnesia

amnesia caused by a trauma such as concussion, in which the memory loss relates to material learnt before the trauma Compare anterograde amnesia

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First recorded in 1930–35

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Examples have not been reviewed.

He woke up in a cloud — he felt as if he had been “dropped cold, empty, neutral, cleansed,” as he later put it — with retrograde amnesia.

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“There are many alternative explanations for these correlations—say, retrograde amnesia, in which the forgetting is due to a brain injury.”

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Still, the overdose left Clark with brain damage and retrograde amnesia.

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While in prison, Madison suffered several strokes in recent years, resulting in brain damage, dementia and retrograde amnesia, court papers said.

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The first, retrograde amnesia, was for events that occurred before my brain injury.

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