Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact. This is in contrast to retrograde amnesia, where most memories created prior to the event are lost while new...
(from the article `memory abnormality`) ...after severe head injury or in association with brain disease. When there is impaired ability to store memories of new experiences (up to total ...
An amnesia which acts forwards in time from the moment of insult, and which is therefore characterised by a difficulty in consolidating new experience, that is to say, patients can have experiences, but they cannot recall them more than a few seconds after the event. They can therefore quite cheerfully have the same experiences over and over again ...
Amnesia in reference to events occurring after the trauma or disease that caused the condition. ... (05 Mar 2000) ... 
impairment of memory for events occurring after the onset of amnesia. Unlike retrograde amnesia, it is the inability to form new memories.
Type: Term Definitions: 1. amnesia in reference to events occurring after the trauma or disease that caused the condition.
Anterograde amnesia: See: Antegrade amnesia.
[n] - loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma
posttraumatic amnesia noun loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma
An inability to remember events that occurred after a brain injury or traumatic event.