Famous Retrograde Amnesia References. Web unlike a temporary episode of memory loss, called transient global amnesia, amnesia can be permanent. Web in neurology, retrograde amnesia (ra) is the inability to access memories or information from before an injury or disease occurred.

Web retrograde amnesia is a condition that hinders the ability to remember past events or experiences. Having retrograde amnesia means you've lost your ability to recall events that happened just before the event that caused your amnesia. People with retrograde amnesia remember events today but may not remember memories that occurred before the event that caused the amnesia.