You suffered a head injury in a car accident.You can remember past events easily,but struggle with remembering events that have occurred since the accident.You are experiencing:
A) Korsakoff's syndrome.
B) retrograde amnesia.
C) repression.
D) anterograde amnesia.

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Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories after a traumatic event, such as a head injury. This is consistent with the difficulty in remembering events that have occurred since the car accident, while still having access to memories before the accident. Korsakoff's syndrome is a type of amnesia caused by long-term alcohol abuse, repression is a psychological defense mechanism to block out traumatic memories, and retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory for events before an injury or trauma. None of these choices fully match the symptoms described.

You Suffered a Head Injury in a Car Accident