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Dissociative amnesia. Dissociative amnesia or psychogenic amnesia is a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature." [ 1 ] The concept is scientifically controversial and remains disputed. [ 2 ][ 3 ]
Psychogenic disease. Classified as a "conversion disorder" by the DSM-IV, a psychogenic disease is a condition in which mental stressors cause physical symptoms matching other disorders. The manifestation of physical symptoms without biologically identifiable cause results from disruptions in normal brain function due to psychological stress.
Psychiatry. Psychogenic pain is physical pain that is caused, increased, or prolonged by mental, emotional, or behavioral factors, without evidence of physical injury or illness. [2][3][4] Headache, back pain, or stomach pain are some of the most common types of psychogenic pain. [5] It is commonly accompanied by social rejection, broken heart ...
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), also referred to as pseudoseizures, non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD), functional seizures, or dissociative seizures,[ 2 ][ 3 ] are episodes resembling an epileptic seizure but without the characteristic electrical discharges associated with epilepsy. [ 4 ][ 3 ] PNES fall under the category of ...
Dissociative disorders (DDs) are a range of conditions characterized by significant disruptions or fragmentation "in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior." Dissociative disorders involve involuntary dissociation as an unconscious defense mechanism ...
Specialty. Psychiatry, neurology, neuropsychology. Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) is a state of confusion that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in which the injured person is disoriented and unable to remember events that occur after the injury. [ 1 ] The person may be unable to state their name, where they are, and ...
Psychiatry, Neurology. Dissociative fugue (/ fjuːɡ / FYOOG), formerly called a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, [1] is a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by reversible amnesia for one's identity in conjunction with unexpected wandering or travel. This is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity and the inability ...
In neurology, retrograde amnesia (RA) is the inability to access memories or information from before an injury or disease occurred. [1] RA differs from a similar condition called anterograde amnesia (AA), which is the inability to form new memories following injury or disease onset. [2] Although an individual can have both RA and AA at the same ...