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amnesiophobia
1. An abnormal fear of having amnesia or loss of memory. This fear is now commonly related to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
2. There are two basic types of amnesia that people fear:

a. The inability to form new memories in which the individual either does not consolidate what is perceived into permanent memory storage or cannot retrieve recent memories.

b. The loss of memory of certain events that occurred before the memory disturbance began.

This entry is located in the following units: mne-, mnem-, mnemon-, mnes-, -mnesia, -mnesiac, -mnesic, -mnestic + (page 1) phobo-, phob-, -phobia, -phobias, -phobe, -phobiac, -phobist, -phobic, -phobism, -phobous + (page 3)