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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- Anti-Ma2-associated limbic encephalitis presenting with transient epileptic amnesiaby Lorenzo Muccioli on June 30, 2022
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- Assessing the effects of measles virus infections on childhood infectious disease mortality in Brazilby Siyang Xia on June 29, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: These results support that measles virus infection could increase the mortality of other infectious diseases. The short lag identified for measles effects (
- A Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Framework to Address Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Impairments After Strokes to the Anterior Communicating Arteryby Ramiro Cruces on June 27, 2022
Patients with strokes to the Anterior Communicating Artery (ACoA) pose an important challenge to rehabilitation teams due to a particular mix of cognitive and behavioral impairments (anosognosia, anterograde amnesia, prospective memory problems, and executive dysfunction). These deficits often compromise engagement with rehabilitation, learning and generalization. The goal of this article is to describe the long-term presentation of a patient with an ACoA stroke (Mrs. B, a 60-year-old electric...
- Combination of Acupoints for Alzheimer's Disease: An Association Rule Analysisby Yao-Chin Wang on June 27, 2022
CONCLUSION: The combination of acupoints ({SP6, BI10} ≥ {HT7} and {HT7, BI10} ≥ {SP6}) can be acknowledged as a core combination for future acupuncture regimens of AD.