A case of persistent retrograde amnesia following a dissociative fugue: Neuropsychological and neurofunctional underpinnings of loss of autobiographical memory and self-awareness

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2993-3005

  Hennig Fast, Kristina ^a   Meister, Franziska ^a   Frodl, Thomas ^a   Beraldi, Anna ^a   Padberg, Frank ^a   Engel, Rolf R ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^b   Möller, Hans Jürgen ^a   Meindl, Thomas ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Dissociative fugue; fMRI; Functional amnesia; Retrograde amnesia

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; AWARENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 48049089375     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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