Measles can cause “immune amnesia,” which reduces the body’s defenses against other illnesses, such as flu and tuberculosis. This reduction in immunity can happen even if a person has been ...

In rare cases, people can even experience transient global amnesia (TGA) after they climax, according to the doctor. Basically, you can briefly forget things after sex, bringing a whole new ...

Still, the results don’t explain why we can’t recall some of the earliest moments of our lives, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. It’s possible that these memories aren’t ...

Only in the last decade have researchers discovered and characterized another consequence of measles infection that is both common and insidious: immune amnesia. Essentially, the measles virus causes ...

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doctors.org.uk Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) is a benign and temporary loss of anterograde memory with the preservation of remote memories and immediate recall. TGA was first described in 1956 and ...