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... > disposition > cognitive disorder > memory disorder > amnesia > retrograde amnesia > functional amnesia

Preferred term

functional amnesia  

Definition

  • Retrograde amnesia, following a major stress, a traumatic event, which can even go as far as loss of personal identity. New learning is possible (no anterograde amnesia).

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • dissociative amnesia
  • psychogenic amnesia
  • psychogenic fugue

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Brand, M., & Markowitsch, H. J. (2010). Aspects of forgetting in psychogenic amnesia. In S. Della Sala (Ed.), Forgetting (pp. 239–251). Psychology Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Dodier, O. (2021). L’amnésie dissociative : Limites méthodologiques, limites conceptuelles, et explications alternatives. L'Année Psychologique, 121(3), 275‑309. https://doi.org/10.3917/anpsy1.213.0275

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Harrison, N. A., Johnston, K., Corno, F., Casey, S. J., Friedner, K., Humphreys, K., Jaldow, E. J., Pitkanen, M., & Kopelman, M. D. (2017). Psychogenic amnesia: Syndromes, outcome, and patterns of retrograde amnesia. Brain, 140(9), 2498–2510. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx186

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: free]
  • • Mangiulli, I., Jelicic, M., Patihis, L., & Otgaar, H. (2021). Believing in dissociative amnesia relates to claiming it: A survey of people’s experiences and beliefs about dissociative amnesia. Memory, 29(10), 1362-1374 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1987475

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Mangiulli, I., Otgaar, H., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2022). A critical review of case studies on dissociative amnesia. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(2), 191–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211018194

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Markowitsch, H. J. (1999). Functional neuroimaging correlates of functional amnesia. Memory, 7(5-6), 561–583. https://doi.org/10.1080/096582199387751

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Markowitsch, H. J. (2003). Psychogenic amnesia. NeuroImage, 20, S132–S138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.09.010

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • McNally, R. J. (2003). Remembering trauma. Harvard University Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Thomas-Anterion, C. (2017). L’amnésie dissociative. Revue de neuropsychologie, 9(4), 213–217. https://doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2017.0431

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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