Amnesia

J. F. Kihlstrom; E. L. Glisky

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-375000-6.00398-0

Amnesia

J. F. Kihlstrom, E. L. Glisky

Psychology

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Abstract

This article provides a comprehensive survey of amnesia as it occurs in a variety of situations, including brain damage and the effects of alcohol and sedative drugs, as well as 'functional' or 'psychogenic' amnesias observed in the dissociative disorders and hypnosis. It also discusses memory failures associated with normal and abnormal development, such as infantile and childhood amnesia, normal aging, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as amnesias following sleep and general anesthesia. Amnesia has theoretical implications for our understanding of normal memory function at both the psychological and neuroscientific levels of analysis, and practical implications for the rehabilitation of memory disorders.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
Subtitle of host publication	Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	116-124
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9780123750006
ISBN (Print)	9780080961804
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375000-6.00398-0
State	Published - Jan 1 2012

Keywords

Alcoholic blackout
Amnesia
Amnesic syndrome
Conscious sedation
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative fugue
Dissociative identity disorder
Electroconvulsive therapy
Functional amnesia
General anesthesia
Implicit memory
Infantile and childhood amnesia
Korsakoff syndrome
Logic of dissociation
Memory
Transient global amnesia
Traumatic retrograde amnesia
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

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General Psychology

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