Discovery of Amnesia
French psychologist Theodule-Armand Ribot was among the first scientists to study amnesia. He proposed Ribot’s Law which states that there is a time gradient in retrograde amnesia. The law follows a logical progression of memory-loss due to disease. First, a patient loses the recent memories, then personal memories, and finally intellectual memories. He implied that the most recent memories were lost first.
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