À la recherche de la mémoire perdue : nature des troubles et mode de récupération d’un cas d’amnésie rétrograde pure

Antérion, C. Thomas; Mazzola, Laure; Foyatier-Michel, N.; Laurent, Bernard

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2007.06.004

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“…Treating the patient psychopharmaceutically and with psychotherapy resulted in a reinstatement of most of his old memories and a reinstatement of his ability to encode new episodic events long term (Markowitsch et al, 2000). This patient therefore resembles one of the few cases with severe autobiographical retrograde amnesia who regained his memories within roughly a year (see also Thomas Ante ´rion et al, 2008).…”

Section: Patient Amnmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…Comorbidities of dissociative amnesia with major depressive disorder, personality disorders, and bulimia nervosa and somatoform disorders have been reported (Maldonado & Spiegel, 2008). Alterations in personality after the onset of dissociative amnesia in the form of changes in eating preferences, smoking habits, or other previously rewarding activities (such as car driving) have also been reported (Fujiwara et al, 2008; Thomas Antérion, Mazzola, Foyatier-Michel, & Laurent, 2008; Tramoni et al., 2009).…”

Section: Dissociative Amnes(t)ic Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Searching for the Anatomy of Dissociative Amnesia

Staniloiu

Markowitsch

2010

Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

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Brain damage was traditionally seen as the product of a neurological disease or injury. Nevertheless, modern brain imaging techniques have provided increasing evidence for alterations in brain tissue and metabolism for a number of psychiatric disorders. Though for a while “dissociated” ( Spiegel, 2006 ) from the clinical and scientific arena, dissociative disorders have in the last several years received a renewed interest among several groups of researchers, who embarked on the work of disentangling their neural correlates. We review data from our own research as well as others, which point to distinct changes in brain regions underlying dissociative amnes(t)ic disorders. These changes may consist of overall reductions in brain metabolism or more selective alterations primarily in the right temporo-frontal cortices. Recent evidence with refined magnetic resonance imaging techniques furthermore reveals selective fiber degenerations in these regions. While these changes may persist and probably even intensify in some patients, they may be reversible in others – especially if treatment is carried out successfully within short time after onset. Implications of these findings for the pathogenetic conceptualization of dissociative amnes(t)ic disorders are outlined.

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Section: Patient Amnmentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Dissociative Amnes(t)ic Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for the Anatomy of Dissociative Amnesia

Staniloiu

Markowitsch

2010

Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

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“…Despite having difficulties with recognizing food by sight and taste, Andrea continued to dislike coffee and tomatoes in the same way he had done before. The opposite happened however in the patient with sudden onset of retrograde amnesia and loss of identity that was described by Thomas-Antérion and colleagues in 2008 [129], who despite having been a heavy cigarette smoker before the onset of the amnesia, totally quit smoking immediately afterwards. Since the appearance of the first studies on priming, it was generally assumed that priming is preserved in patients with anterograde or retrograde amnesia [130,131].…”

Section: Conditioning and Priming In Dissociative Amnesiamentioning

confidence: 84%

The Remains of the Day in Dissociative Amnesia

Staniloiu

Markowitsch

2012

Brain Sciences

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Memory is not a unity, but is divided along a content axis and a time axis, respectively. Along the content dimension, five long-term memory systems are described, according to their hierarchical ontogenetic and phylogenetic organization. These memory systems are assumed to be accompanied by different levels of consciousness. While encoding is based on a hierarchical arrangement of memory systems from procedural to episodic-autobiographical memory, retrieval allows independence in the sense that no matter how information is encoded, it can be retrieved in any memory system. Thus, we illustrate the relations between various long-term memory systems by reviewing the spectrum of abnormalities in mnemonic processing that may arise in the dissociative amnesia—a condition that is usually characterized by a retrieval blockade of episodic-autobiographical memories and occurs in the context of psychological trauma, without evidence of brain damage on conventional structural imaging. Furthermore, we comment on the functions of implicit memories in guiding and even adaptively molding the behavior of patients with dissociative amnesia and preserving, in the absence of autonoetic consciousness, the so-called “internal coherence of life”.

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“…Comorbidities of dissociative amnesia with major depressive disorder, personality disorders, bulimia nervosa, conversion disorder and somatisation disorder have been reported (Maldonado & Spiegel, 2008). Changes in personality after the onset of dissociative amnesia in the form of changes in eating preferences, smoking or drinking habits or other engagement in various activities have also been reported (Fujiwara et al, 2008;Tramoni et al, 2009;Thomas Antérion, Mazzola, Foyatier-Michel, & Laurent, 2008).…”

Section: Dissociative Amnesic Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%