Palimpsest

Palimpsest originally means parchment with older writing scraped off, for new use.

In medicine, the term palimpsest refers to an insular memory disorder, caused by intoxication (alcohol) or in delirious states. It was prevented from storing a different length of time in the memory.

related articles

 * Memory and its disorders

Reference

 * 1) RABOCH, Jiří and Petr ZVOLSKÝ, et al. Psychiatry. first edition. Prague: Galén, 2001. p. 107.  ISBN 80-7262-140-8.