| emotional amnesia | A numbness of feeling and emotion whose aetiology is psychological. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| amnesia | <neurology> Lack or loss of memory, inability to remember past experiences. Origin: Gr. Amnesia = forgetfulness (05 Feb 1998) |
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| amnesia, retrograde | Amnesia for events that occurred before the onset of amnesia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anterograde amnesia | Amnesia in reference to events occurring after the trauma or disease that caused the condition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrograde amnesia | Amnesia in reference to events that occurred before the trauma or disease that caused the condition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posthypnotic amnesia | Selective forgetting, after a hypnotic state, of events occurring during hypnosis or of information stored in long-term memory, such as one's name, address, and names of relatives. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transient global amnesia | A memory disorder seen in middle aged and elderly persons characterised by an episode of amnesia and bewilderment which persists for several hours; during the episode the patient has a memory defect for present and recent past events, but is fully alert, oriented, capable of high-level intellectual activity, and has a normal neurological examination. Typically, these amnesic episodes occur spontaneously, and most patients experience only one; of uncertain aetiology-probably ischemic, but not due to atherosclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic amnesia | The loss or disturbance of memory following an insult or injury to the brain of the type that accompanies a head injury, or excessive use of alcohol, or following the cessation of alcohol ingestion or other psychoactive drugs; or loss or disturbance of memory of the type seen in hysteria and other forms of dissociative disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lacunar amnesia | Amnesia in reference to isolated events. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corrective emotional experience | Reexposure under favourable circumstances to an emotional situation with which one could not cope in the past. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional | Pertaining to the emotions. (18 Nov 1997) |
| emotional age | A measure of emotional maturity by comparison with average emotional development. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional amenorrhoea | Amenorrhoea caused by a strong emotional disturbance, e.g., fright, grief. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional attitudes | Attitudes expressive of any of the great passions; e.g., anger, lust. Synonym: emotional attitudes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional deprivation | Lack of adequate and appropriate interpersonal or environmental experiences, or both, usually in the early developmental years. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional disease | See: mental illness. (05 Mar 2000) |