Intermittent amnesia

Introduction Intermittent amnesia means that it is easier to forget something at a certain time, when it is good or bad. Although the pathogenesis is not conclusive, psychological factors are generally considered to be the trigger for the disease. It is generally believed that patients may have inherent defects due to genetic and life trauma. In the face of life stress events, the self can not mature and respond to dissociation. In the treatment, it is usually based on psychotherapy, including finding and properly dealing with stressors, moderate listening, hypnotherapy or drug-assisted talks, and encouraging patients to overcome symptoms (such as memories).

Cause

1. The patient loses his memory of past experience, and the phenomenon of amnesia is caused by psychological reasons.

2. The memory lost by the patient is sometimes limited to things that cannot be remembered for a certain period of time, that is, only remember the old things and forget the present.

3. The memory lost by the patient is limited to no memory of important things. This condition is called {scenario amnesia}.

4. The memory lost by the patient, some of which occur suddenly after suffering a painful blow, and after a while, may also restore memory.

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Related inspection

Cerebral angiography psychological age test

1. Neurological routine examination: cerebral angiography is a new X-ray examination technique widely used in clinical practice since the 1990s. It is the first choice of an access artery, generally using the right femoral artery and placing a right femoral artery. The arterial sheath is selected by using different catheters through the arterial sheath, and under the guidance of the guide wire, the artery to be displayed is selected, and the iodine-containing contrast agent is injected. The vascular trajectory through which the contrast agent passes is continuously photographed, and the digital subtraction angiography of the cerebral blood vessel is performed by computer-aided imaging.

2. Psychology test: It is easier to forget some things in a certain period of time.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of intermittent amnesia:

1. Local amnesia: The patient loses memory completely within a few hours before and after certain traumatic events.

2. Selective amnesia: Individuals remember something that happened during a certain period of time, forgetting something.

3. Total amnesia: refers to the individual's complete forgetting of his or her life background, including name and address.

4. Continuous amnesia: refers to an individual who has forgotten past experience from a certain year or event.

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