(1) In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia , an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace.(2) He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.(3) One theory is that he has suffered a trauma which has caused amnesia , one of the methods the mind uses to retreat from a shock.(4) It covers a range of clinical presentations from identity disorder to amnesia .(5) The deputy either has a very short memory or is suffering from political amnesia .(6) Were they to be subjected to artificial amnesia to make them forget what they saw and did?(7) Mixed with alcohol it can cause severe disorientation, amnesia and loss of consciousness.(8) You are going to have to consider the difference between amnesia and automatism.(9) It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.(10) Another form of potentially blissful ignorance is traumatic amnesia .(11) If encoding is absent, amnesia will follow, as in the case of many of our dreams.(12) Post-traumatic amnesia is defined as ending when clear and continual memory returns.(13) they were suffering from amnesia(14) He slept like a log, his amnesia forgotten, through the morning and the noon.(15) Reports by patients of memory loss are of the erasing of autobiographical memories or retrograde amnesia .(16) He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.