dissociative amnesia
MONDO:0001185Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names dissociative amnesia yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A disorder characterized by a retrospective gap in memory of important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature; the memory loss far exceeds ordinary forgetfulness and is not the result of substance use or the consequence of a medical condition.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0001185), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: dissociative amnesia
- Also called
- psychogenic amnesia