Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) is a self-limiting neurological syndrome in which episodes typically last for 4-8 hours and usually resolve within 24 hours ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...

Lessons from amnesia In the mid-20th century, famous case studies of amnesic patients were the early evidence of this distinction between semantic and episodic memory. For example, Henry Molaison and ...

During a TGA episode, you can't form new memories and you have difficulty recalling recent memories. Episodes of TGA usually ...

Play "Chernobyl". Photo courtesy of the theatre "Kryly Khalopa".Before World War Two, nearly half the population of Brest in north-western Belarus was Jewish. Today, Brest’s pre-war past is almost ...