What are the features of psychogenic amnesia ?
In most cases of psychogenic amnesia, patients exhibit biologically unlikely patterns of impairment.
Commonly, autobiographical memory is disproportionately affected, sparing memories of political and entertainment events.
Patients often exhibit deficits in remote memories, which are normally very resistant to damage.
New learning (anterograde memory) is often spared.
Nevertheless, reversible abnormalities on PET with temporal hypometabolism have been found in some of these patients.
