Dissociative amnesia

Dissociative amnesia. Memory loss that's more extensive than normal forgetfulness and can't be explained by a physical or neurological condition is the hallmark of this condition.

Dissociative Amnesia: The loss of personal memory in the absence of impaired ability to learn new material.
Dissociative Fugue: The unexpected and sudden travel away from home, associated with an inability to recall their previous identity.

Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative amnesia is the inability to recall important personal memories, usually of a stressful nature, which cannot be explained by normal forgetfulness.
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Dissociative amnesia causes unexplained memory loss of traumatic events that took place earlier in the patient's life.

Definition Dissociative amnesia is classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , 4th Edition, Text Revision, also known as the DSM-IV-TR as one of the dissociative disorders, ...

Dissociation is characterized by a sense of the world as a dreamlike or unreal place and may be accompanied by poor memory of the specific events, which in severe form is known as dissociative amnesia.

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Psychologic disturbances of memory result from extreme psychologic trauma or stress (see Dissociative Disorders: Dissociative Amnesia).

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Dissociative amnesia is a type of amnesia that occurs when the brain splits off, or dissociates, extremely distressing memories from conscious recollection.
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See also: Symptom, Trauma, Stroke, Stress, Abuse