Moreover, a rare syndrome called psychogenic amnesia is sometimes confused with traumatic amnesia.

Europe s Refugee Amnesia

The Threat of German Amnesia

It is inability to remember that constitutes amnesia.

But the current frenzied focus is marked by considerable amnesia.

Consider, too, that one symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder is an inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.

Is amnesia an integral part of politics? When it comes to the treaty to reform the Union s institutions, which will be finalized in November, recent events suggest that amnesia does play a central role.

BRUSSELS Is amnesia an integral part of politics? When it comes to the treaty to reform the Union s institutions, which will be finalized in November, recent events suggest that amnesia does play a central role.

Several studies have shown that peer support reduces fear during stressful situations such as combat and domestic violence and may mitigate Posttraumatic stress disorder.

Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.

We did this experiment with a group of patients who had anterograde amnesia. These are hospitalized patients.

These cases count as recovered memories of sexual abuse, but not as instances of traumatic dissociative amnesia.

Victims of psychogenic amnesia suddenly lose all memory of their previous lives, including their sense of personal identity.

Advocates of traumatic amnesia misconstrue these reports as showing that victims are unable to remember the horrific event itself.

Germany, in particular Europe s largest country, and its strongest in economic terms seems to have fallen victim to historical amnesia.

Incomplete encoding of a trauma must not be confused with amnesia an inability to recall something did get into memory.

Historical amnesia seemed to have erased from the memory the terrible armed conflicts that had caused those views of the world.

Strikingly, both advocates and skeptics of the concept of traumatic dissociative amnesia adduce the same studies when defending their diametrically opposed views.

Consider, too, that one symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder is an inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma. This symptom, however, does not mean that victims are unaware of having been traumatized.

Collective punishment also means not only a type of amnesia by Italians and Romanians about what happened under fascism, nazism, communism, but also for their own national histories.

In contrast, the phenomenon of dissociative amnesia supposedly entails victims inability to remember their traumatic experiences, not an inability to remember their entire lives or who they are.

Without a fundamental turnaround in American political consciousness, the unilateralist amnesia of US foreign policy will have far reaching consequences and leave a huge vacuum in the global system.

A variety of medications may be administered, with the overall aim of ensuring sleep, amnesia, analgesia, relaxation of skeletal muscles, and loss of control of reflexes of the autonomic nervous system.

We hope that the fact that the outcome document was not definitive on this matter does not provide a loophole for those who choose to have selective amnesia about our long standing commitments.

Post traumatic amnesia (PTA) is a state of confusion that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury in which the injured person is disoriented and unable to remember events that occur after the injury.

Strikingly, both advocates and skeptics of the concept of traumatic dissociative amnesia adduce the same studies when defending their diametrically opposed views. But it is the advocates who misinterpret the data when attempting to show that victims are often unable to recall their traumatic experiences.

The statement by the delegation of the United States was another example of cynicism and political amnesia whereby the main violator of all human rights, a country which did not recognize the right to development or health, presented itself as the champion of human rights.