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===DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for Amnesia<ref name=DSMV>{{cite book | title = Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5 | publisher = American Psychiatric Association | location = Washington, D.C | year = 2013 | isbn = 0890425558 }}</ref>=== | ===DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for Amnesia<ref name=DSMV>{{cite book | title = Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5 | publisher = American Psychiatric Association | location = Washington, D.C | year = 2013 | isbn = 0890425558 }}</ref>=== | ||
A. An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. | * A. An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. | ||
Note: Dissociative amnesia most often consists of localized or selective amnesia for a specific event or events; or generalized amnesia for identity and life history. | Note: Dissociative amnesia most often consists of localized or selective amnesia for a specific event or events; or generalized amnesia for identity and life history. | ||
'''''AND''''' | '''''AND''''' | ||
B. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupa tional, or other important areas of functioning. | * B. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupa tional, or other important areas of functioning. | ||
'''''AND''''' | '''''AND''''' | ||
C. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., al cohol or other drug of abuse, a medication) or a neurological or other medical condition (e.g., partial complex seizures, transient global amnesia, sequelae of a closed head in jury/traumatic brain injury, other neurological condition). | * C. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., al cohol or other drug of abuse, a medication) or a neurological or other medical condition (e.g., partial complex seizures, transient global amnesia, sequelae of a closed head in jury/traumatic brain injury, other neurological condition). | ||
'''''AND''''' | '''''AND''''' | ||
D. The disturbance is not better explained by dissociative identity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, somatic symptom disorder, or major or mild neu- rocognitive disorder. | * D. The disturbance is not better explained by dissociative identity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, somatic symptom disorder, or major or mild neu- rocognitive disorder. | ||
Specify if; | Specify if; | ||
Latest revision as of 20:55, 31 October 2014
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Jesus Rosario Hernandez, M.D. [2]
Amnesia Diagnosis Criteria
DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for Amnesia[1]
- A. An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
Note: Dissociative amnesia most often consists of localized or selective amnesia for a specific event or events; or generalized amnesia for identity and life history.
AND
- B. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupa tional, or other important areas of functioning.
AND
- C. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., al cohol or other drug of abuse, a medication) or a neurological or other medical condition (e.g., partial complex seizures, transient global amnesia, sequelae of a closed head in jury/traumatic brain injury, other neurological condition).
AND
- D. The disturbance is not better explained by dissociative identity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, somatic symptom disorder, or major or mild neu- rocognitive disorder.
Specify if;
- With dissociative fugue: Apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering that is associated with amnesia for identity or for other important autobiographical information.
References
- ↑ Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5. Washington, D.C: American Psychiatric Association. 2013. ISBN 0890425558.