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What you see/hear immediately disappears from memory

What pops into your head immediately disappears from memory

Cannot process more than one thing that you see/hear simultaneously

Cannot retain/recall your own behavior, experiences, and habits

Cannot retain/recall your plans and schedule

Cannot retain/recall places and landmarks

Cannot retain/recall numbers and symbols

Cannot retain/recall proper nouns

Cannot recall everyday words that you have used often

Cannot retain/recall names of people

Cannot retain/recall faces of people

Cannot recall processes and procedures to accomplish things

Recall erroneous memories (mix up memories)

Cannot recall letters and sentences

Cannot perform more than one thing simultaneously

Mix things up if you try to do more than one thing simultaneously

Cannot integrate/process more than one piece of information

Cannot perform simple calculations

Cannot turn thoughts into actions

Cannot sense or operate one's own body

Cannot write neatly

Small changes prevent you from completing familiar actions

Be restless and talkative/hyperverbal

Your hands and body move impulsively

Take unintended actions

Cannot recognize shapes and sizes correctly

Cannot distinguish colors

Have a constricted or narrow visual field

Cannot recognize faces of people correctly

See faces of people in various things

Feel as if you are seeing things that should not be there

Stationary objects appear to be in motion

Visually misperceive things

Have sensitive sight, hearing, and smell

Cannot pay attention to sounds that you need to listen to

Catch only part of what you hear

Feel as if you are hearing sounds that should not be there

No sense of smell

Feel as if you are sensing smells that should not be there

Have altered skin sensations

Feel stimulation and pain that do not exist

Have decreased sense of taste

Cannot associate when with what

Your sense of time does not match actual time

Lost sense of clock time

Cannot tell dates and days of the week

Have altered sense of speed

Cannot tell distance

Cannot tell depth

Cannot tell directions or loss of spatial orientation

Cannot associate plane with space

Space appears to be distorted

Become easily fatigued, mentally and physically

Cannot regulate body temperature and sweating

Have headaches

Cannot regulate blood pressure

Cannot sleep

Cannot adjust to seasonal changes

Be quick to assume/worry too much

Be depressed/anxious

Feel frustrated/quick to anger

Have poor vision in the dark

Be preoccupied with/fixated on certain things

Lose sense of balance

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