Memory Loss - How Does Amnesia Affect Memory and Attention

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
How does Amnesia affect memory and attention?....................................................................3
Theories of human amnesia and its impact on the attention......................................................4
Attention, thinking and memory problem due to Amnesia........................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Amnesia implies the situation of the adverse impact on mild cognitive impairment.
This is the form of memory loss that leads to precedes Alzheimer’s disease. It has been
observed by the study conducted in the United Kingdom in the year 2018 that Amnesia not
only affects the memory problem but it also put an adverse effect on the heart functioning and
other body functioning (Stark, 2019). In this report, there will be a discussion about the ways
through which amnesia affects the memory loss, symptoms and causes of amnesia, theories
of amnesia and its impact on the attention, etc. This discussion will be done through the
perspective of the various surveys for obtaining effective and efficient results.

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How does Amnesia affect memory and attention?
People with Amnesia incorporates the short-term memory problem because amnesia
put the adverse effect on the brain’s cognitive function. Due to Amnesia, a person is not able
to remember information because his/her brain converts long-term information to the short-
term information. Later on, when a person leaves this problem unattentively then it creates
the major harm to the cognitive function (Chen & Wyble, 2015). The adverse effect on the
brain results in decreasing attention power because amnesia lowers the power to hold the
memory for the long term. Another reason that leads to lower attention power incorporates
because amnesia creates the blocks in the brain cells which restricts the proper flow of the
oxygen. However, amnesia does not affect a person's intelligence, general knowledge,
judgment, etc (Clark & Magurine, 2016).
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that is responsible for the attention cortex of
the brain. This prefrontal cortex is known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ). This function
controls the processing areas of the brain that are responsible for implying attention and
concentration power. As per the theory of semantic encoding, it is concluded that amnesia
does not directly affect the IFJ function, amnesia affects the memory function of the brain.
When the memory cortex gets adversely affects that slowly it starts affecting the IFJ function
too, it describes that amnesia impacts both memory syndrome and attention syndrome of the
brain (Ryan, Roy, Pignatelli, Arons & Tonegawa, 2015). Amnesia affects both, object-based
attention and spatial attention. Apart from this, it is also neuroscientists also concluded that
IFJ affected coordinates through Amnesia implicated in a cognitive ability known as working
memory. Moreover, thinking for the negative course of action also creates the hindrance for
an individual (especially those who are suffering from the Amnesia) to establish the put their
complete attention on the task (Craver, et. al., 2016).