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Anterograde amnesia is a selective memory deficit, caused by brain injury. It makes it hard for people to learn new information. Memory for events that happened before the injury may be spared, but events that happened after the injury may be lost. This means that an individual with anterograde amnesia may have a good memory for childhood and for the years before the injury, but might not remember much from the years after the injury. Short term memory is spared, which means tha