title: Effectiveness of lorazepam-assisted interviews in an adolescent with dissociative amnesia: A case report.
abstract: To facilitate gathering information during a psychiatric interview, some psychiatrists advocate augmenting the interview using drugs. Rather than barbiturates, benzodiazepines have been used for drug-assisted interviews. Dissociative amnesia is one of the indications for these interviews. Herein, we present the case of a 15-year-old female who was diagnosed as having dissociative amnesia because of conflicts with her friends. She was administered a lorazepam-assisted interview to aid recovery of her memories. In this case, a small dose of lorazepam was sufficient to recover her memories without any adverse effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Aram Hospital, Yangsan-si, Kyungnam 626-240, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yuna
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Aram Hospital, Yangsan-si, Kyungnam 626-240, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Mi-Hee
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan-si, Kyungnam 626-770, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-Gon
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Division of Child-Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan-si, Kyungnam 626-770, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ji-Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: adolescent; amobarbital, lorazepam; benzodiazepine; clinical practice; dissociation; dissociative amnesia; dissociative disorder; distress; drug-assisted interview; emotional distress; grant-supported paper; memory loss; neural regeneration; neuroregeneration