Three-fourths of cases are reported upon awakening. Some people report short-lived retrograde amnesia so deep that they do not recognize their home or family members, though personal identity is preserved. 6.1 Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF)Ī person experiencing a TEA episode has very little short-term memory, so that there is profound difficulty remembering events in the past few minutes ( anterograde amnesia), or of events in the hours before the onset of the attack, and even memories of important events in recent years may not be accessible during the amnestic event ( retrograde amnesia).
