Cause of Amnesia Also Blocks Thinking Ahead

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WASHINGTON - "The future is now," football coach George Allen once proclaimed. He didn't know it, but that seems to be quite literally true for people with amnesia.

It turns out that a common cause of amnesia also prevents its victims from imagining the future, forcing them to live only in the present, researchers report in today's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Cause of Amnesia Also Blocks Thinking Ahead

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Un...

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