Memory Disorders

noun a casual conversation or discussion

verb to engage in a casual conversation or discussion

• The board members had a confab to discuss the company's financial projections.
• Let's have a confab over coffee to catch up on things.
• I overheard a juicy confab between the two coworkers in the break room.
• The colors in the painting seemed to have a confab with each other, creating a harmonious composition.

noun a condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory

• The patient exhibited hypermnesia, a condition characterized by an exceptional memory recall.
• She has hypermnesia, she can remember every detail of every conversation we've had.
• Dude, his hypermnesia is off the charts, he never forgets anything!
• Her hypermnesia is like having a photographic memory, she can recall things with perfect clarity.

noun a person experiencing anterograde amnesia

adjective relating to or denoting a type of amnesia in which a person is unable to remember new information after a specific event

• The patient experienced anterograde amnesia after the accident.
• After the crash, he couldn't remember anything new, that's anterograde amnesia.
• I heard she has anterograde memory loss, poor thing.
• His career seemed to be in an anterograde spiral, always moving forward but never really progressing.

noun fugue: a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment

• The patient experienced a dissociative fugue, during which they traveled to a different city without any recollection of their identity.
• My friend went through a dissociative fugue and ended up in a town three hours away from home!
• I heard she had a total dissociative fugue and woke up in a random place with no idea how she got there.
• Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dissociative fugue, lost in my own thoughts and disconnected from reality.

noun the act of confabulating, or inventing imaginary experiences to fill in gaps in memory

• The patient's confabulation was a result of their memory impairment.
• She tends to confabulate when she's had a few drinks.
• I think he's just confabulating to make himself look better.
• The politician's confabulation was evident in his twisting of the facts.