title: Functional MR imaging of psychogenic amnesia: a case report.
abstract: We present here a case in which functional MR imaging (fMRI) was done for a patient who developed retrograde psychogenic amnesia for a four year period of her life history after a severe stressful event. We performed the fMRI study for a face recognition task using stimulation with three kinds of face photographs: recognizable familiar faces, unrecognizable friends' faces due to the psychogenic amnesia, and unfamiliar control faces. Different activation patterns between the recognizable faces and unrecognizable faces were found in the limbic area, and especially in the amygdala and hippocampus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea.
authors.forename: Jong-Chul
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Gwang-Woo
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: Moo-Suk
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Heoung-Keun
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Sung-Jong
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Eun
authors.forename: Yong-Ku
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yo-Han
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000648:Amnesia, Retrograde / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D000679:Amygdala / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic