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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Zehra Malik, M.B.B.S [2]

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Common causes of amnesia include medications, head trauma, depression and aging.

Amnesia

Drug Induced

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Erickson KR (1990). "Amnestic disorders. Pathophysiology and patterns of memory dysfunction". West J Med. 152 (2): 159–66. PMC 1002292. PMID 2154898.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Cascella M, Di Napoli R, Carbone D, Cuomo GF, Bimonte S, Muzio MR (2018). "Chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment: mechanisms, clinical features and research perspectives". Recenti Prog Med. 109 (11): 523–530. doi:10.1701/3031.30289. PMID 30565571.
↑ Sadock, Benjamin J., and Virginia A. Sadock. Kaplan & Sadock's concise textbook of clinical psychiatry. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008. Print
↑ Benbow, SM (2004) "Adverse effects of ECT". In AIF Scott (ed.) The ECT Handbook, second edition. London: The Royal College of Psychiatrists, pp. 170–174.