Lehman, in case your brain has blurred that traumatic memory, collapsed because its executives like Dick Fuld and COO Joe Gregory thought the bank was invincible from any real damage and bet the house accordingly.

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As I watched the unspooling horror of it, a repressed, traumatic memory resurfaced, of an audition, one that must have taken place around the time this comedy troupe was formed, very likely in the same town.

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While Loftus couldn't definitively prove that repressed memories weren't real, she could show that it was possible to implant a memory of a traumatic event that never happened.

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The pill, taken in the hospital immediately after a traumatic event, would suppress memory molecules and block an event from being etched into long-term brain circuits, a process that takes between 12 and 24 hours.

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For some children, the experience is so traumatic, they unconsciously suppress the memory of the events, often manifesting later in adulthood.

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On top of that, he purportedly suffered short-term memory loss as a result of traumatic brain injury.

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He reasoned that excessive amounts of stress hormones released at the time of a traumatic event might be responsible for overly strong memory formation.

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Falling out is just a "vague" memory, rather than a dramatic or traumatic one.

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The filing cites recent scientific studies that have found a connection between concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that results in Alzheimer's-like symptoms, including memory loss and mood swings.

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