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dissociative amnesia

dissociative amnesia Dissociative amnesia is a disorder in which a person has a backward-looking gap in memory for important personal information, often linked to traumatic or highly stressful experiences.

Dissociative amnesia is a disorder in which a person has a backward-looking gap in memory for important personal information, often linked to traumatic or highly stressful experiences. The memory loss is much greater than ordinary forgetting and is not due to substance use or a medical condition.

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