anterograde amnesia

• Condição médica caracterizada pela incapacidade de formar novas memórias após o evento que causou a amnésia, enquanto as memórias de longo prazo anteriores ao evento permanecem intactas.

A medical condition characterized by the inability to form new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.

1. Inability to form new memoriesC1formal

   A condition where a person cannot create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.

   Incapacidade de formar novas memórias

   • After the accident, he suffered from anterograde amnesia and could not remember new people he met.
   • The patient with anterograde amnesia could recall his childhood but not what he had for breakfast.
   • Anterograde amnesia is often depicted in movies, like in the film 'Memento'.