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Amnesia risk factors
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Aging, depression, chronic stress, head trauma, chronic sleep deprivation and medications are risk factors for amnesia.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
- A psychologically traumatic incident in the past can increase chances of developing dissociative amnesia (psychogenic amnesia).[1]
- Head trauma increases the risk of post traumatic amnesia.[2]
- Sexual repression in childhood and cultural norms can cause infantile/childhood amnesia in adults.[3]
- Prolonged trauma and childhood sexual abuse can increase risk of dissociative fugue.
- Sleep deprivation[4]
- Head trauma, depression, hypertension, Down syndrome and family history can increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.[5]
- Risk factors for Korsakoff Syndrome include prolonged alcohol use, chemotherapy, dialysis, extreme dieting, severe malnutrition, genetic factors.[6]
- Chronic stress[7]
- Decreased socialization[8]
References
References
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- ↑ Wang Q (2003). “Infantile amnesia reconsidered: a cross-cultural analysis”. Memory. 11 (1): 65–80. doi:10.1080/741938173. PMID 12653489.
- ↑ Alhola P, Polo-Kantola P (2007). “Sleep deprivation: Impact on cognitive performance”. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 3 (5): 553–67. PMC 2656292. PMID 19300585.
- ↑ Burns A, Iliffe S (2009). “Alzheimer’s disease”. BMJ. 338: b158. doi:10.1136/bmj.b158. PMID 19196745.
- ↑ Rosenblum, Laurie B. (March 2011). “Korsakoff’s Syndrome”. NYU Langone Medical Center.
- ↑ Peavy GM, Salmon DP, Jacobson MW, Hervey A, Gamst AC, Wolfson T; et al. (2009). “Effects of chronic stress on memory decline in cognitively normal and mildly impaired older adults”. Am J Psychiatry. 166 (12): 1384–91. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09040461. PMC 2864084. PMID 19755573.
- ↑ Ertel KA, Glymour MM, Berkman LF (2008). “Effects of social integration on preserving memory function in a nationally representative US elderly population”. Am J Public Health. 98 (7): 1215–20. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.113654. PMC 2424091. PMID 18511736.
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