adjective

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.

   "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."