Two routes to losing one's past life: A brain trauma, an emotional trauma

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 27-38

  Ouellet, Julie ^a   Rouleau, Isabelle ^a,b   Labrecque, Raymonde ^b   Bernier, Gilles ^b   Scherzer, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographic amnesia; Functional retrograde amnesia; Psychogenic origin; Remote memory loss; Retrograde amnesia

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; BRAIN INJURY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; HUMAN RELATION; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; BRAIN INJURIES; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 67650504162     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2008-0213     Document Type: Article

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