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Drug-induced Amnesia
Drug-induced amnesia is amnesia caused by drugs. Amnesia may be therapeutic for medical treatment or for medical procedures, or it may be a side-effect of a drug, such as alcohol, or certain medications for psychiatric disorders, such as benzodiazepines. It is seen also with slow acting parenteral general anaesthetics. Medical usage Amnesia is desirable during surgery, so general anaesthesia procedures are designed to induce it for the duration of the operation. Sedatives such as benzodiazepines, which are commonly used for anxiety disorders, can reduce the encoding of new memories, particularly in high doses (for example, prior to surgery in order for a person not to recall the surgery). Amnestic drugs can be used to induce a coma for a child breathing using mechanical ventilation, or to help reduce intracranial pressure after head trauma. Researchers are currently experimenting with drugs which induce amnesia in order to improve understanding of human memory, and develop better ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnesia
Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that is caused. There are two main types of amnesia: * Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember information that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an accident or operation. In some cases, the memory loss can extend back decades, while in other cases, people may lose only a few months of memory. * Anterograde amnesia is the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store. People with anterograde amnesia cannot remember things for long periods of time. These two types are not mutually exclusive; both can also occur simultaneously. Case stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Primarily known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. ''Time'' magazine named Winslet one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012. Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age fifteen, was in the British television series '' Dark Season'' (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in '' Heavenly Creatures'' (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in '' Sense and Sensibility'' (1995). Global stardom followed with her leading role in James Cameron's epic romance '' Titanic'' (1997), which was the highest-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridlock (Doctor Who)
"Gridlock" is the third episode of the Doctor Who (series 3), third series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast on BBC One on 14 April 2007. It was written by Russell T Davies and directed by Richard Clark (director), Richard Clark. The episode is set five billion years in the future on the planet New Earth, one of the many planets humanity had settled on. In the episode, alien time traveller Tenth Doctor, The Doctor (David Tennant) and his new travelling Companion (Doctor Who), companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) discover the remainder of humanity on the planet live in perpetual gridlock within the Motorway, a highway system beneath the city state of New New York. When Martha is kidnapped, the Doctor races to find her before she enters the dangerous "fast lane". "Gridlock" completes a loose trilogy that began with "The End of the World (Doctor Who), The End of the World" and "New Earth (Doctor Who), New Earth" (2006), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling Spacecraft, spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box. While travelling, the Doctor works to save lives and liberate oppressed peoples by combating List of Doctor Who villains, foes. The Doctor usually travels with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. Beginning with William Hartnell, List of actors who have played the Doctor, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; the most recent being Ncuti Gatwa, who portrayed the Fifteenth Doctor from 2023 to 2025. The transition between actors is written into the plot of the series with the Regeneration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drinking Binge
Binge drinking, or heavy episodic drinking, is drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time, but definitions vary considerably. Binge drinking is a style of drinking that is popular in several countries worldwide, and overlaps somewhat with social drinking since it is often done in groups. The degree of intoxication however, varies between and within various cultures that engage in this practice. A binge on alcohol can occur over hours, last up to several days, or in the event of extended abuse, even weeks. Due to the long term effects of alcohol abuse, binge drinking is considered to be a major public health issue. Binge drinking is more common in males, during adolescence and young adulthood. Heavy regular binge drinking is associated with adverse effects on neurologic, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hematologic, immune, and musculoskeletal organ systems as well as increasing the risk of alc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco Elysium
''Disco Elysium'' is a 2019 role-playing video game developed and published by ZA/UM. The game was written and designed by a team led by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and executive producer Kaur Kender, featuring an art style based on oil painting, oil-painting and music by the English band British Sea Power. The game was released for Windows in October 2019 and macOS in April 2020. An expanded version of the game featuring full voice acting and new content, subtitled ''The Final Cut'', was released for consoles in 2021 alongside a free update for the PC versions. ''Disco Elysium'' follows a troubled detective with no memory of his identity or the world around him. As he investigates a murder with a detective from another precinct, the player can piece together the protagonist's identity and discover what led him to his state. ''Disco Elysium'' is a non-traditional role-playing game featuring little combat. Instead, events are resolved through skill checks and dialogue trees us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maze Runner
''The Maze Runner'' is a 2009 dystopian novel by American author James Dashner. It takes place in a world suffering from a coronal mass ejection and whose surviving civilians fight to avoid an apocalyptic illness called the Flare. It is written from the perspective of Thomas, a 16-year-old boy who wakes up with no memories inside an artificially produced maze. An organization called WICKED controls the world politically, seeks a cure to the Flare, and uses the youngest generation of civilians who are immune to it as test subjects. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It won the Young Adult Library Services Association Best Fiction for Young Adults award in 2011, is a #1 ''New York Times'' Best Seller and was on the list for 148 weeks, and was a ''Kirkus Reviews'' Teen Book of the Year. ''The Maze Runner'' is a popular pick by educators teaching middle-grade readers in schools. The novel was published in 2009 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization featured in stories created by contributors on the SCP Wiki, a wiki-based Collaborative fiction, collaborative writing project. Within the project's shared universe, shared fictional universe, the SCP Foundation is a secret organization that is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena (known as "anomalies" or "SCPs"), while also keeping their existence hidden from the rest of society. The collaborative writing project includes elements of many genres such as Horror fiction, horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy. The majority of works on the SCP Wiki consist of thousands of SCP files that mock confidential scientific reports and document various SCPs and associated containment procedures. The website also contains "Foundation Tales", short stories featuring various characters and settings in the SCP universe. The wiki's literary works have been praised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegiant (novel)
''Allegiant'' is a science fiction novel for young adults, written by the American author Veronica Roth and published by HarperCollins in October 2013. It completes the ''Divergent'' trilogy that Roth started with her debut novel '' Divergent'' in 2011. The book is written from the perspective of both Beatrice (Tris) and Tobias (Four). Following the revelations of the previous novel, they journey past the city's boundaries to discover what lies beyond. ''Allegiant'' was published simultaneously by Katherine Tegen Books and HarperCollins Children's Books in the UK. Four weeks earlier, a free electronic companion book to the trilogy titled '' The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant'' was released online. The novel was to be adapted into a two-part film, the first part, '' The Divergent Series: Allegiant'', was released on March 18, 2016, while the second part, called ''Ascendant'', was planned to release in June 2017 but was redeveloped as a TV movie before getting ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Descent
''Amnesia: The Dark Descent'' is a 2010 survival horror adventure game developed and published by Frictional Games. It was first released on September 8, 2010, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Later, it was released to PlayStation 4 on November 22, 2016, Xbox One on September 28, 2018, and Nintendo Switch on September 12, 2019 as part of ''The'' ''Amnesia Collection''. The game follows Daniel, who must explore the dark and foreboding Castle Brennenburg, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and unsettling events. ''The Dark Descent'' was followed by '' Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs'' (2013), an indirect sequel developed by The Chinese Room. In 2016, ''Amnesia: The Collection'' was released, a compilation that included ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent'', its expansion ''Amnesia: Justine'' (2011), and ''Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs''. In 2020, the series made a return with '' Amnesia: Rebirth'', developed by Frictional Games, and serving as a direct sequel t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic (illusion)
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of close-up magic, parlor magic, and stage magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It is to be distinguished from Magic (supernatural), paranormal magic which are effects claimed to be created through supernatural means. It is one of the oldest performing arts in the world. Modern entertainment magic, as pioneered by 19th-century magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, has become a popular theatrical art form. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant, Howard Thurston, Harry Kellar, and Harry Houdini achieved widespread commercial success during what has become known as "the Golden Age of Magic", a period in which performance magic became a staple of Broadway theatre, vaudeville, and music halls. Meanwhile, magicians such as Georges Méliès, Gaston Velle, Walter R. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forget-Me-Now
"Forget-Me-Now" is the third episode of the third season of the American television satirical sitcom ''Arrested Development''. It is the 43rd overall episode of the series, and was written by co-executive producer Tom Saunders and directed by supervising producer John Amodeo. It originally aired on Fox on October 3, 2005. The series, narrated by Ron Howard, follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family, who made their money from property development. The Bluth family consists of Michael, his twin sister Lindsay, his older brother Gob, his younger brother Buster, their mother Lucille and father George Sr., as well as Michael's son George Michael, and Lindsay and her husband Tobias' daughter Maeby. In the episode, the family's new attorney works on George Sr.'s defense as he plans his escape. Michael tries to destroy all evidence of his family so he won't have to introduce them to Rita, and Gob demonstrates his "Forget-me-now" pills. Plot Michael (Jason Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
