Amnesia suggestions were administered to 35 subjects of low, medium, and high hypnotic susceptibility who had learned a word list while hypnotized The method encouraged subjects to organize the words sequentially. Organization of recall was measured on recall trials conducted before, during, and after suggested amnesia. Highly hypnotizable subjects showed a breakdown in temporal organization du...

The breakdown of amnesia was examined by showing subjects a videotape of the hypnotic events that they had experienced. The extent of the amnesia for these events was defined precisely, and simulating procedures were employed to analyze the cues existing in the overall test situation. Videotape display of the hypnotic events was presented via application of the Experiential Analysis Technique a...

The term " posthypnotic amnesia " refers to the temporary inability of the hypnotized subject to remember, after hypnosis, the events that had transpired while he or she was hypnotized. Over the years, several parallels have been drawn between posthypnotic amnesia and other disorders of memory that are observed in the psychological clinic and the experimental laboratory, and in the psychopathol...

Amnesia is usually described as an impairment of a long-term memory (LTM) despite an intact short-term memory (STM). The intact recency effect in amnesia had supported this view. Although dual-store models of memory have been challenged by single-store models based on interference theory, this had relatively little influence on our understanding and treatment of amnesia, perhaps because the deb...

OBJECTIVES Although long term outcome of patients with perimesencephalic haemorrhage, a benign subset of subarachnoid haemorrhage, is excellent, some patients report an episode of amnesia for the first hours to days after the ictus. The relation between the occurrence of amnesia and the size of the ventricles on CT, including the temporal horns, were studied in patients with perimesencephalic h...

introduction: drugs of abuse such as nicotine and morphine used systemically by addicts produce their effects via the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway. furthermore, evidence indicates that some behavioral effects of nicotine and morphine are mediated by nitric oxide (no). based on these observations, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of intra-nucleus accumbens (nac) inj...

Objective: Persons who claim memory loss for the crime of which they are suspected represent a problem for the legal system. When such claims emerge, the court often relies on expert testimonies. Mental health professionals who act as experts in these cases often assume that the memory loss is caused by a combination of strong emotions and abundant substance use (e.g., alcohol). It is also comm...