Some of the effects were similar to those of certain clinical amnesic syndromes.

Damage to any part of this system, including the hippocampus and surrounding cortices, results in amnesic syndromes.

Patients who suffer from anterograde amnesic syndromes may present with widely varying degrees of forgetfulness.

This particular amnesic syndrome is difficult to diagnose and often is misdiagnosed by physicians as an acute psychiatric disorder.

For his investigations of the amnesic syndrome and of explicit versus implicit memory, major steps toward a neuro-psychological analysis of the functions of consciousness.

The pathophysiology of anterograde amnesic syndromes varies with the extent of damage and the regions of the brains that were damaged.

Lesions of the medial dorsal and anterior nuclei of the thalami and lesions of the mammillary bodies are commonly involved in amnesic syndromes in humans.

While we are all familiar with (and resigned to) a certain amount of forgetfulness during the day, the equivalent of being unable to remember breakfast or lunch by three o'clock in the afternoon would definitely put one in the category of suffering from a severe case of amnesic syndrome.

In an article in the BMJ on depictions of amnesia in film, clinical neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale writes that 50 First Dates "maintains a venerable movie tradition of portraying an amnesic syndrome that bears no relation to any known neurological or psychiatric condition".