psychiatric disorders
Dissociative Amnesia
Diagnosis of Dissociative Amnesia
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) criteria Medical and psychiatric examination to rule out other causes Diagnosis of dissociative amnesia is clinical, based on presence of the following criteria in the DSM-5-TR: Patients cannot recall important personal information (usually trauma- or stress-related) that would not typically be lost with ordinary forgetting. Symptoms cause significant distress or significantly impair social or occupational functioning. Also, the symptoms cannot be better accounted for by the effects of a medication or another disorder (eg, Dementia , Diagnosis requires a medical and psychiatric examination to rule out other possible causes. Initial evaluation should include MRI to rule out structural causes Electroencephalography (EEG) to rule out a seizure disorder Blood and urine tests to rule out toxic causes, such as illicit drug use Psychologic testing can help better characterize the nature of the dissociative experiences. 