loading...| Preferred Name | dissociative amnesia | |
| Synonyms |
psychogenic amnesia |
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| Definitions |
Is the partial or total loss of important information, sometimes occurring suddenly after stressful or traumatic event. Understanding abnormal behavior. David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Stanley Sue. A dissociative disorder where he continuity of the patient's memory is disrupted. Patients with dissociative amnesia have recurrent episodes in which they forget important personal information or events, usually connected with trauma or severe stress. The disturb person may be unable to recall information such as his or her name, address, friends, and relatives but does remember the necessities of daily life. This disorder most commonly presents as a retrospectively reported gap or series of gaps in recall for aspects of the individual's life history. These gaps are usually related to traumatic or extremely stressful events. There are five types of memory disturbances in dissociative amnesia that vary in terms of the degree and type of memory that is lost: - localised amnesia.- the individual fails to recall events that occurred during a circumscribed period of time, usually the first few hours following a profoundly disturbing event. - selective amnesia.- the person can recall some, but not all, of the events during a circumscribed period of time. - generalised amnesia.- failure of recall encompasses the person's entire life. - systematised amnesia.- loss of memory for certain categories of information, such as all memories relating to one's family or to a particular person. - continuous amnesia.- is defined as the inability to recall events subsequent to a specific time un to and including the present. "Understanding abnormal behavior". David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Stanley Sue. DSM-IV-TR (american Psychiatric Association) |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_11037 |
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| comment |
The disturb person may be unable to recall information such as his or her name, address, friends, and relatives but does remember the necessities of daily life. This disorder most commonly presents as a retrospectively reported gap or series of gaps in recall for aspects of the individual's life history. These gaps are usually related to traumatic or extremely stressful events. There are five types of memory disturbances in dissociative amnesia that vary in terms of the degree and type of memory that is lost: - localised amnesia.- the individual fails to recall events that occurred during a circumscribed period of time, usually the first few hours following a profoundly disturbing event. - selective amnesia.- the person can recall some, but not all, of the events during a circumscribed period of time. - generalised amnesia.- failure of recall encompasses the person's entire life. - systematised amnesia.- loss of memory for certain categories of information, such as all memories relating to one's family or to a particular person. - continuous amnesia.- is defined as the inability to recall events subsequent to a specific time un to and including the present. "Understanding abnormal behavior". David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Stanley Sue. DSM-IV-TR (american Psychiatric Association) |
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| alternative label |
psychogenic amnesia |
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| code DSM-IV-TR |
300.12 |
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| database_cross_reference |
SNOMEDCT_2010_1_31:84209002 SNOMEDCT_2010_1_31:192420000 UMLS_CUI:C0236795 SNOMEDCT_2010_1_31:191716000 ICD9CM:300.12 MSH:D000647 |
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| definition |
Is the partial or total loss of important information, sometimes occurring suddenly after stressful or traumatic event. Understanding abnormal behavior. David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Stanley Sue. A dissociative disorder where he continuity of the patient's memory is disrupted. Patients with dissociative amnesia have recurrent episodes in which they forget important personal information or events, usually connected with trauma or severe stress. |
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| has exact synonym |
psychogenic amnesia |
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| has_obo_namespace |
disease_ontology |
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| ICD-10 code |
F44.0 |
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| id |
DOID:11037 |
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| label |
dissociative amnesia |
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| notation |
DOID:11037 |
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| prefixIRI |
DOID:11037 |
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| prefLabel |
dissociative amnesia |
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| priorVersion |
MFOMD_0000075 |
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