anterograde

adjective2

1. •
   Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.

   • Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
2. •
   Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.

   • Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neuron's cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.
   • Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.