Korean J Radiol.
2005 Sep;6(3):196-199. 10.3348/kjr.2005.6.3.196.
Functional MR Imaging of Psychogenic Amnesia: A Case Report
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Korea. gwjeong@chonnam.ac.kr
- 2Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Korea.
- 3Department of Psychiatry, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea.
- KMID: 1102717
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2005.6.3.196
Abstract
- We present here a case in which functional MR imaging (fMRI) was done for a patient who developed retrograde psychogenic amnesia for a four year period of her life history after a severe stressful event. We performed the fMRI study for a face recognition task using stimulation with three kinds of face photographs: recognizable familiar faces, unrecognizable friends' faces due to the psychogenic amnesia, and unfamiliar control faces. Different activation patterns between the recognizable faces and unrecognizable faces were found in the limbic area, and especially in the amygdala and hippocampus.
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