How Do Concussions Cause Amnesia?

Amnesia is a really handy/cliché literary device and the inciting incident for countless Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but it's also a real, serious affliction caused by major head trauma. Learn how scrambled neurons can permanently alter your memory on this week's QQ. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Accalia Elementia, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Mike Frayn, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Kathy Philip, Patrick D. Ashmore, Thomas J., charles george, and Bader AlGhamdi. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/du-ooa061416.php http://www.neurology.org/content/86/24/2291 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC155413/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535990/ http://www.cdc.gov/headsup/basics/concussion_whatis.html http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/026990500421886 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3351514 https://books.google.com/books?id=LTu3BAAAQBAJ&dq=diaschisis+concussion&source=gbs_navlinks_s