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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2004, Vol. 92, No. 2 161-163
© 2004 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Editorial II

Gone but not forgotten—or was it?

R. A. Veselis1

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Box 24, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA and Weill Medical College of Cornell University E-mail: veselisr{at}mskcc.org

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Implicit memory has been described as ‘gone, but not forgotten’, as it is a form of memory we do not know we have.1 This type of memory is only evident by changes in behaviour after exposure to a stimulus that we do not recall. This issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia contains an exemplary study by Deeprose and colleagues2 which investigates implicit memory formation during anaesthesia, more specifically regarding the influence of surgery on this phenomenon. Implicit memory occurs at the opposite end of the spectrum from the dreadful experience of awareness, and observation of such is frequently referred to as ‘learning during anaesthesia’. As Deeprose and colleagues explain, ‘learning’ is a term best reserved for explicit memory, and ‘priming’ is more appropriate for unconscious learning or implicit memory. The techniques of intraoperative suggestion and the influence of the stressful and fearful surgical experience on postoperative events and recovery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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