anterograde amnesia
Medical term for the inability to form new memories after a brain injury or disease onset.
After the accident, he developed anterograde amnesia and became unable to remember new things.
Retrograde amnesia: loss of memories from before the injury, contrasting with the inability to form new memories in 前向性健忘.
Compound of 前向性 (anterograde) and 健忘 (amnesia). The exact derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the medical meaning.