Can Post Traumatic Amnesia Be Permanent?
Post-Traumatic Amnesia May Be Either Short Term, or Longer-Lasting (Often over a Month - See Box at Right), but Is Hardly Ever Permanent. When Continuous...
Post-traumatic amnesia may be either short term, or longer-lasting (often over a month - see box at right), but is hardly ever permanent. When continuous memory returns, the person can usually function normally.
Can post-traumatic amnesia last for years?
How long will post-traumatic amnesia last? PTA may last for a few minutes, hours, days, weeks or even, in rare cases, months. Certain types of medication have been used to try to improve the condition, with varying degrees of success. Sadly, there is usually no way of knowing exactly how long it will last.
Can amnesia last for years?
Temporally graded retrograde amnesia
Some people may only lose memories from the year or two prior to having the injury or disease. Other people may lose decades of memories. But even when people lose decades, they typically hang on to memories from childhood and adolescence.
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