Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle are both involuntary muscles. Specialized cardiac muscle fibers make up the pacemaker that regulates your heart rate. This pacemaker, in turn, is under the control of the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system that operates below your level of consciousness.
amnesia - partial or total loss of memory; he has a total blackout for events of the evening memory loss, blackout cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes
In some cases the memory loss can extend back decades, while in others the person may lose only a few months of memory. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store. People with this type of amnesia cannot remember things for long periods of time. These two types are not mutually exclusive. Both can occur within a patient at one time.