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Amnesia in Relation to Fugue States – Distinguishing a Neurological from a Psychogenic Basis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Narinder Kapur
Narinder Kapur*
Affiliation:
Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO9 4XY
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Abstract

A case of transient amnesia is described in which a patient reported memory loss for five days, during which he had wandered extensively. Analysis showed that he did not have selective amnesia for the public events which had occurred during the five days for which he professed memory loss. This finding was incompatible with our case having a neurologically based global memory disorder during the fugue state. These findings offer support for a distinction between personal and public episodic memory.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 6 , December 1991 , pp. 872 - 877
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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