Lucy sustained a brain injury in a car accident. Although Lucy's memories of her life before the accident are intact, she is no longer able to form new, long-term memories. Every night when she goes to bed, her memories of what she had done that day are lost. Lucy suffers from

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Elianna Mora

10 July, 02:22

Lucy sustained a brain injury in a car accident. Although Lucy's memories of her life before the accident are intact, she is no longer able to form new, long-term memories. Every night when she goes to bed, her memories of what she had done that day are lost. Lucy suffers from

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Wayne Beasley · Answer 1

Answer: Anterograde amnesia

Explanation: Anterograde amnesia is the mental situation in which an individual persist the past memories in mind but is not able to remember new and recent memories after amnesia incident.

According to the question, Lucy is suffering from anterigrade amnesia after the car accident. She can retain all the memories of past life before accident but not able to remember recent memory of things done at present time by her. Thus, even if she tries to remember those moments every night she is not able to do so.