Your Book Explains That Brief Episodes of Retrograde Amnesia (E

question 26

Multiple Choice

Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect

• A) a failure of memory consolidation.
• B) disrupted long-term potentiation.
• C) temporary post-traumatic stress disorder.
• D) Korsakoff's syndrome.

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