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Psychiatry Neurotic, Stress Related and Somatoform Disorders 1751b9b8

Psychogenic amnesia is characterized by:

A
Anterograde amnesia
B
Retrograde amnesia
C
Both with confabulation
D
Patchy impairment of personal memories
High-Yield Explanation
In psychogenic amnesia (or dissociative amnesia), usually memory is lost for events which have some personal significance, whereas memories for neutral events (e.g. national events) is intact. Hence, the memory loss is patchy and mostly for personal memories.

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