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Memory diseases

Ibn Sina said: (The people who remember the quickest are the ones who understand the signs.) There are people who have strong understanding, but have weak memory. The strongest people in memory are the easiest to learn and gain, the best in memorization and the quickest in recall. It is difficult for all of these conditions to meet for one person, as memory is often faulty, making it difficult to memorize, just as it is difficult to know, or think, and recall. Memory diseases can be divided into the following types:

1 - Dysmnesia (La damnisie) (2): or difficulty remembering. It is the inability to consolidate memories. This disease is common in imbecility and imbecility (3). An insane person is one who is born insane. He cannot memorize a thing even though he repeats it a thousand times. This disease may result from fatigue of the nervous system, or occur in old age. It may be temporary, arising from a disturbance or alertness in the brain, as in cases of high fever, diabetes, or extreme intellectual activity.
2 - Amnesia (L'amnésie): or amnesia, which is the loss of preserved memories and the inability to recall them. It is of two types: general amnesia and partial amnesia. A person suffering from general amnesia loses all his memories. But this amanzia is rarely final and absolute. If she is perfect, she is born with a change in personality. It may be temporary, as in a severe concussion, or it may be periodic, alternating.

A person suffering from partial amnesia loses a limited portion of his memories. Such as aphasia, speech deafness, forgetting names and adjectives, or forgetting family memories or professional memories. Partial amnesia includes acunaire, which is the loss of memories of a specific time while remembering what came before and after it. Among them is apraxie, or the inability to perform normal tasks, which is the person’s astonishment from using things. Like a blacksmith who does not know how to use his hammer. If the amnesia is retrograde, the person loses memories of the time preceding the event that caused the disease, and if it is later (antérograde), the patient loses memories of the time later than that event. It may be increasing, as in general dementia, alcoholism, and hardening of the brain in the elderly.

3 - Hypermnesia: or hyper-remembrance, which is the intensification of the power of thoughts, recalling, and awakening old memories buried in the embrace of the past, like a drowned person and a crucified person who remembers in a short period of time everything that has passed in her life, or like a student who thinks he has forgotten, so the exam excites him and awakens his memory. He answers questions forcefully. Or like a feverish person who, during an illness, remembers many forgotten things. It was true that it was narrated about a girl that, during a fever, she recalled some Hebrew passages that she had learned when she was young.

4 - Paramnésie (La paramnésie) or memory deviation, which is the disease of false memory, often arises from the corruption of cognition, so a person thinks that he knows something while he knows it, because he sees it for the first time. Some people may have this disease to the point where they have little interest in everything that surrounds them, because they think that everything they see is old to them, and there is nothing new in their tourism or reading. A person may change his memories and think that they still match reality, thus making a mistake in judgment.