Retrograde amnesia and malingering
Purpose of review: Malingered anterograde amnesia is a phenomenon that has been exhaustively studied, whereas research on retrograde amnesia has tended to focus upon functional and organic accounts of impairment.
Jenkins, Keith G. +2 more
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Psychogenic amnesia: syndromes, outcome, and patterns of retrograde amnesia [PDF]
There are very few case series of patients with acute psychogenic memory loss (also known as dissociative/functional amnesia), and still fewer studies of outcome, or comparisons with neurological memory-disordered patients.
Kate Humphreys (16233983) +8 more
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Irrelevant, Incidental and Core Features in the Retrograde Amnesia Associated with Korsakoff’s Psychosis: A Review [PDF]
A brief review of the literature on retrograde amnesia in Korsakoff's syndrome is presented. Various explanations of the phenomenon are discussed including the notions that it results from the effects of “state-dependency”, that it occurs as a result of ...
P. R. Meudell
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Retrograde amnesia abolishes the self‐reference effect in anterograde memory [PDF]
Is retrograde amnesia associated with an ability to know who we are and imagine what we will be like in the future? To answer this question, we had S.G., a patient with focal retrograde amnesia following hypoxia, two brain-damaged (control) patients with
Gambino S +3 more
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An international survey of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy recipients. [PDF]
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to address the paucity of studies of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) patients. Methods A total of 1144 people responded to an online survey. Results The respondents included 286 relatives and friends of ECT recipients, from 22 countries.
Harrop C +5 more
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Transient Global Amnesia After Screening Esophagogastroduodenoscopy: Incidence and Risk Factors in a 20-Year Single-Center Cohort. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Transient global amnesia (TGA) after esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) has been described only in case reports. Because sudden‐onset amnesia can mimic stroke and other acute central nervous system disorders, TGA requires careful differentiation in the acute setting, and clinicians need to be familiar with this condition.
Kobayashi M +12 more
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From 'Lack of Insight' to Being a Knower: A Personal Turning Point in Psychiatric Inpatient Care. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background At times, the psychiatric inpatient system pathologizes patient perspectives as ‘lack of insight’, framing survival strategies as DSM symptoms. In these moments, power imbalances emerge that risk silencing patients' experiential knowledge.
Moberg J.
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Persistent Bilateral [<sup>18</sup>F]THK5351 and Migrating Unilateral [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG Uptake in Anti-LGI1 Encephalitis. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Anti–leucine‐rich glioma‐inactivated 1 encephalitis (LGI1‐E) can cause persistent cognitive deficits, but the mechanisms remain unclear. A 40‐year‐old woman with LGI1‐E presented with subacute cognitive deficits and showed mild left medial temporal lobe (MTL) swelling and fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) hyperintensity on initial ...
Akitomi Y +8 more
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Towards solving the riddle of forgetting in functional amnesia: recent advances and current opinions [PDF]
Staniloiu A, Markowitsch HJ. Towards solving the riddle of forgetting in functional amnesia: recent advances and current opinions. Frontiers in Psychology.
Angelica eStaniloiu +4 more
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Amnesia for violent crime among young offenders. [PDF]
Amnesia for the perpetration of violent offences is an important issue in medico-legal proceedings. Previous studies of amnesia have mainly relied on selected groups of unconvicted offenders, which raises the question of how reliable the findings are ...
Evans, Ceri +5 more
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