Dissociative fugue: Recurrent episodes in a young adult

Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder which has been described as sudden, unexpected, travel away from home or one's customary place of daily activities, with the inability to recall some or all of one's past. There is no systematic data existing on it and very few cases reported in the li...

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Autores principales: Raval, Chintan Madhusudan, Upadhyaya, Sunnetkumar, Panchal, Bharat Navinchandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4525440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257491
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.160944
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description Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder which has been described as sudden, unexpected, travel away from home or one's customary place of daily activities, with the inability to recall some or all of one's past. There is no systematic data existing on it and very few cases reported in the literature. Here we report a case of fugue in a young adult male who travelled 8 times away from his home during last 1½ year. He has a loss of memory for episodes with patchy recall of few events. Longest duration of fugue episode was of 1-month. The case describes mode of presentation to hospital and treatment given to restore his identity and reunite him in society and family.
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spelling pubmed-45254402015-08-07 Dissociative fugue: Recurrent episodes in a young adult Raval, Chintan Madhusudan Upadhyaya, Sunnetkumar Panchal, Bharat Navinchandra Ind Psychiatry J Case Report Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder which has been described as sudden, unexpected, travel away from home or one's customary place of daily activities, with the inability to recall some or all of one's past. There is no systematic data existing on it and very few cases reported in the literature. Here we report a case of fugue in a young adult male who travelled 8 times away from his home during last 1½ year. He has a loss of memory for episodes with patchy recall of few events. Longest duration of fugue episode was of 1-month. The case describes mode of presentation to hospital and treatment given to restore his identity and reunite him in society and family. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4525440/ /pubmed/26257491 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.160944 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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