Dissociative amnesia causes memory loss, often due to severe stress or trauma. People may not remember important information about themselves or things that have happened to them. For example, the ...

Dissociative amnesia is a psychological disorder characterized by retrospective memory gaps which include the inability to recall personal information which might be related to a stressful or ...

Long dramatized in movies and novels, amnesia refers to a profound loss of memory that’s temporary, permanent, or progressive (gets worse over time). Depending on the type and cause of amnesia, the ...

Editor's Note: This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Ron Blake understands trauma. He also understands what it's like to work through it. Blake was raped more ...

When adults claim to have suddenly recalled painful events from their childhood, are those memories likely to be accurate? This question is the basis of the “memory wars” that have roiled psychology ...

Dissociative fugue is when a person’s mind detaches from reality, causing a state of temporary memory loss. Often, people in this state will go somewhere else and later have no memory of how they got ...

Amnesia is the loss of memories. These may be memories of events and experiences that happened in the past few seconds, in the past few days, or in the distant past. You may also be unable to recall ...

Dissociative amnesia is one of several dissociative disorders in which a person forgets key elements of their life, and is therefore divorced from a full understanding of themselves and their current ...

Derived from Greek, the term amnesia is used to describe memory impairment that is characterized by the inability to successfully recall previously learned information and learn new information. To be ...