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Psychiatric Disorders
Published in Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss, Understanding Medical Terms, 2020
Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss
Dissociative disorders include dissociative amnesia or fugue, formerly called psychogenic amnesia; dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder; depersonalization disorder; and transient global amnesia. In the dissociative states, the patient dissociates himself from the stressful event through a fugue or multiple personality. Fugue is from the Latin for "flee" and is also used for a musical form that may be viewed as a flight. A fugue is a massive amnesia allowing the patient to flee all memory of the stressful event, but it often leaves the patient wandering aimlessly. Double or multiple personality also allows the patient to dissociate from the event by creating one or more separate identities with no ties to the stress.
Descriptive and Psychodynamic Psychopathology EMIs
Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Alcoholic dementia.Confabulation of embarrassment.Dissociative amnesia.Echolalia.Fantastic confabulation.Ganser syndrome.Korsakoff psychosis.Mamillary body.Negativism.Parietal lobe.Subthalamic nucleus.Suggestibility.
Child Psychiatric Emergencies
Published in R. Thara, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Emergencies in Psychiatry in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2017
Tolulope Bella, Olurotimi Adejumo, Patricia Ibeziako, Olayinka Omigbodun
Dissociative disorders typically manifest as disruptions or a discontinuity in the normal functions of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior (American Psychiatric Association 2013). Dissociative disorders may present with “positive” symptoms such as depersonalization, derealization, or fragmentation in the experience of identity, or subjective “negative” experiences, with loss of access or control over mental functions such as memory, resulting in dissociative amnesia (American Psychiatric Association 2013). Children and adolescents who experience traumatic events, including maltreatment, abuse, natural disasters, or war are at increased risk of dissociative disorders (American Psychiatric Association 2013; Shipman and Taussig 2009; Laor et al. 2002; Cagiada, Candido and Pennati 1997).
Dissociative Symptoms are Highly Prevalent in Adults with Narcolepsy Type 1
Published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2022
Laury Quaedackers, Hal Droogleever Fortuyn, Merel Van Gilst, Martijn Lappenschaar, Sebastiaan Overeem
As indicated in Table 4, there were significantly more narcolepsy patients fulfilling the criteria of a dissociative disorder according to the DSM-IV-TR criteria, compared to controls. In fact, 62% of patients met the criteria of either a diagnosis of dissociative amnesia (8%) or a dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (NOS) (53%).