Dissociative fugue in the elderly

Dissociative fugue is a rarely reported diagnostic entity. It is one of the least understood and yet clinically one of the most fascinating disorders in Mental Health. Here, we describe a case of fugue in a 62-year-old housewife who was brought to our hospital with pockets of memory loss. This case...

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Autores principales: Rajah, Anita, Kumar, R. Suresh, Somasundaram, C. P., Kumar, A. Anand
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20048459
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.58300
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author Rajah, Anita
Kumar, R. Suresh
Somasundaram, C. P.
Kumar, A. Anand
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description Dissociative fugue is a rarely reported diagnostic entity. It is one of the least understood and yet clinically one of the most fascinating disorders in Mental Health. Here, we describe a case of fugue in a 62-year-old housewife who was brought to our hospital with pockets of memory loss. This case illustrates the need for timely referrals, which could channelize valuable professional time and help avoid expensive and unnecessary investigations.
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spelling pubmed-28023812010-01-14 Dissociative fugue in the elderly Rajah, Anita Kumar, R. Suresh Somasundaram, C. P. Kumar, A. Anand Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Dissociative fugue is a rarely reported diagnostic entity. It is one of the least understood and yet clinically one of the most fascinating disorders in Mental Health. Here, we describe a case of fugue in a 62-year-old housewife who was brought to our hospital with pockets of memory loss. This case illustrates the need for timely referrals, which could channelize valuable professional time and help avoid expensive and unnecessary investigations. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2802381/ /pubmed/20048459 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.58300 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rajah, Anita
Kumar, R. Suresh
Somasundaram, C. P.
Kumar, A. Anand
Dissociative fugue in the elderly
title Dissociative fugue in the elderly
title_full Dissociative fugue in the elderly
title_fullStr Dissociative fugue in the elderly
title_full_unstemmed Dissociative fugue in the elderly
title_short Dissociative fugue in the elderly
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20048459
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.58300
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