Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative amnesia is a type of dissociative disorder that involves inability to recall important personal information that would not typically be lost with ordinary forgetting. It is usually caused by trauma or stress. Diagnosis is based on history after ruling out other causes of amnesia.
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Diagnoses: Dissociative Amnesia -See Amnesia-Psychogenic,” entry W009. No differences were listed
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Youtube Video: Why Can’t I Remember My Childhood?
Amazon or Library Book: I Forgot To Remember
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Support Group: nami.org; 800-950-6264
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
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- Wernicke's encephalopathy presenting with confusion and hearing lossby Lucy Carson on January 19, 2025
We present a case of a male in his early 50s assessed in the emergency department with a seemingly clear alcohol history but with classic symptoms of Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE): disorientation, gait ataxia and vertical nystagmus. He also had significant bilateral hearing loss and profound anterograde amnesia. Neuroimaging revealed hallmark signs of WE, including symmetrical T2/fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintensity in the medial thalami. Here, we consider important differentials...
- Don't pretend COVID-19 didn't happenby Maria D Van Kerkhove on January 17, 2025
Just over 5 years ago, on New Year's Eve 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) became aware of the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China. A massive global infectious disease storm was already brewing-one that would shut down the world, with profound economic, social, and political impacts that still reverberate today. It's understandable that governments and individuals may want to forget that the COVID-19 pandemic ever happened, but such collective amnesia prevents...
- Memory in the Balance: Exploring Ischemic Amnesia in Posterior Circulation Strokeby Marshall Kirsch on January 17, 2025
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- Transient Global Amnesia After Endoscopic Septoplasty and Turbinate Reductionby Arifeen S Rahman on January 17, 2025
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