Disturbances in Memory

• Amnesia - loss of memory
• Confabulation - making stories that are not true to fill the gap between memory loss
• Retrograde - inability to recall memories formed before a traumatic event
• Anterograde - inability to make new memories after a traumatic event
• Music is the last memory lost
• Reminiscence therapy - intervention for retrograde amnesia
• Intervention for anterograde amnesia is reorient the client by using a clock or calendar