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Anterograde Amnesia

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Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new explicit memories after the onset of brain injury or illness.

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A patient converses normally and does not recall the conversation twenty minutes later.

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Procedural learning often continues intact. The patient improves at a skill they deny practicing.