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Psychogenic amnesia and self-identity: a multimodal functional investigation |
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Published in | European Journal of Neurology. 2011, vol. 18, no. 12, p. 1422-5 | |
Abstract | Patients with psychogenic amnesia generally suffer from episodic memory deficits associated with an impairment of self-identity. While the first is generally attributed to limbic dysfunction, the latter might be related to posterior parietal cortex. | |
Keywords | Adult — Amnesia, Retrograde/etiology/pathology/psychology/radionuclide imaging — Child — Child Abuse, Sexual — Electroencephalography — Emigrants and Immigrants/psychology — Female — Humans — Identity Crisis — Limbic System/pathology/physiopathology/radionuclide imaging — Magnetic Resonance Imaging — Memory, Episodic — Neuropsychological Tests — Parietal Lobe/pathology/physiopathology/radionuclide imaging — Positron-Emission Tomography — Self Concept — Single-Blind Method — Stress, Psychological/complications | |
Identifiers | PMID: 21554495 | |
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Research group | Groupe Lazeyras Francois (IRM fonctionnelle et métabolique) (539) | |
Citation (ISO format) | ARZY, Shahar et al. Psychogenic amnesia and self-identity: a multimodal functional investigation. In: European Journal of Neurology, 2011, vol. 18, n° 12, p. 1422-5. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:43046 |