Functional MR Imaging of Psychogenic Amnesia: A Case Report

We present here a case in which functional MR imaging (fMRI) was done for a patient who developed retrograde psychogenic amnesia for a four year period of her life history after a severe stressful event. We performed the fMRI study for a face recognition task using stimulation with three kinds of fa...

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Autores principales: Yang, Jong-Chul, Jeong, Gwang-Woo, Lee, Moo-Suk, Kang, Heoung-Keun, Eun, Sung-Jong, Kim, Yong-Ku, Lee, Yo-Han
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2005
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16145296
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2005.6.3.196
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Sumario:We present here a case in which functional MR imaging (fMRI) was done for a patient who developed retrograde psychogenic amnesia for a four year period of her life history after a severe stressful event. We performed the fMRI study for a face recognition task using stimulation with three kinds of face photographs: recognizable familiar faces, unrecognizable friends' faces due to the psychogenic amnesia, and unfamiliar control faces. Different activation patterns between the recognizable faces and unrecognizable faces were found in the limbic area, and especially in the amygdala and hippocampus.

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