Amnestic disorders

Roy P. C. Kessels; Greg Savage

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Amnestic disorders

Roy P. C. Kessels, Greg Savage

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Amnestic disorders may involve deficits in the encoding or storage of information in memory, or in retrieval of information from memory. Etiologies vary and include traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative disease, and psychiatric illness. Different forms of amnesia can be distinguished: anterograde amnesia affects memory for the present, and retrograde amnesia affects memory for the past. Different memory systems may also be affected (working memory, episodic memory or semantic memory). This entry discusses hippocampal amnesia, amnesia caused by Alzheimer's disease (including mild cognitive impairment), memory dysfunction caused by vascular cognitive impairment, Korsakoff's syndrome, posttraumatic amnesia, transient global amnesia, transient epileptic amnesia, and psychogenic amnesia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of clinical psychology
Editors	Robin L. Cautin, Scott O Lilienfeld
Place of Publication	Chichester, West Sussex
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9780470671276
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118625392.wbecp060
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Korsakoff's syndrome
Amnesia
Dementia
Epilpepsy
Memory
Psychogenic

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