Publications [#253799] of David C. Rubin

Journal Articles

1. Rubin, DC; Greenberg, DL, Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology., vol. 95 no. 9 (April, 1998), pp. 5413-5416, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ISSN 0027-8424 [9560290], [doi]
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   Abstract:
   We describe a form of amnesia, which we have called visual memory-deficit amnesia, that is caused by damage to areas of the visual system that store visual information. Because it is caused by a deficit in access to stored visual material and not by an impaired ability to encode or retrieve new material, it has the otherwise infrequent properties of a more severe retrograde than anterograde amnesia with no temporal gradient in the retrograde amnesia. Of the 11 cases of long-term visual memory loss found in the literature, all had amnesia extending beyond a loss of visual memory, often including a near total loss of pretraumatic episodic memory. Of the 6 cases in which both the severity of retrograde and anterograde amnesia and the temporal gradient of the retrograde amnesia were noted, 4 had a more severe retrograde amnesia with no temporal gradient and 2 had a less severe retrograde amnesia with a temporal gradient.