Anterograde Amnesia Research Paper

Playing football has always been a rough contact sport. When people think of football, most will think of strong, built men with every thought of trying to prove each of them are better than the other. The fierce tackle the football player experienced certainly caused him a brain injury. According to the text, the football player briefly lost consciousness and when he regains it, he remembers everything that has happened before the injury. Unfortunately, after fifteen minutes without having the presences of the doctor around, he has no memory of ever seeing her. By this information, it can be concluded that the part of the football players’ brain injured was the temporal lobe. The frontal and temporal lobes are the most commonly damaged parts of the brain affected by a concussion because those parts of the lobes are surrounded by ridged bone (Kelly 2012). Inside the medial temporal lobe there is a region of the brain known as the limbic system, which includes the …show more content…
Anterograde amnesia is a form of memory loss that loses the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the anterograde amnesia, while long-term memories from before the event are still there (Johnson 2010). A person with anterograde amnesia can have a conversation, but as soon as the person is distracted, he or she will forget the conversation ever happened (Myers 2006). The parts of the brain that affects memory when damaged to cause anterograde amnesia can be the hippocampus, because this part of the brain is where new information must pass before permanently being stored in memory (Myers 2006). Another part of the brain that can be damaged and cause anterograde amnesia is the basal forebrain, this part of the brain is a group of structures that produce acetycholine which helps the brain cells store information (Myers

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