Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry (동의신경정신과학회지)
- Volume 16 Issue 2
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- Pages.287-299
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- 2005
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- 1226-6396(pISSN)
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- 2234-4942(eISSN)
6 Clinical Reports of Temporary Severe Amnesia Patients -focusing on amnesia, hysteric convulsion, dissociative disorder
단기 기억상실을 주증(主症)으로 하는 6례(例)의 임상보고 -중기(中氣), 건망(健忘), 해리성 기억장애 중심으로
- Oh, Young-Jin (Dept. of Neuropsychiatry, college of oriental medicine, dongeui university) ;
- Kim, Bo-Kyung (Dept. of Neuropsychiatry, college of oriental medicine, dongeui university)
- Published : 2005.11.30
Abstract
Dissociative disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a sudden loss of memory, but which has no organic disease or explanation. It usually occurs after heavy psychosocial stress or traumatic experience. A transient cerebral ischemic attack (TIA) is an acute episode of temporary and focal loss of cerebral function of vascular origin. TIAs are rapid in onset; symptoms reach their maximal manifestation in fewer than 5 minutes. Manifestations are of variable duration and typically last 2-15 minutes(rarely as long as 24 h). Most TIA durations are less than 1 hour. Of concern is the careful detection of changes in behavior, speech, gait, memory, movement, and vision. TIAs are uncommon in persons younger than 60 years. I treat 6 cases of Sudden Temporary Amnesia Patients with oriental medicine and they are improved. All of them had amnesia for