A police officer was shot in a gun battle with bank robbers. Although emergency brain surgery saved his life, it left him unable to store new information. When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers, what will they write?

a) proactive amnesia
b) anterograde amnesia
c) retrograde amnesia
d) retroactive amnesia

ANS: b

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