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Dissociative amnesia

Dissociative amnesia is a condition in which a person cannot remember important information about their life. This forgetting may be limited to certain specific areas, or may include much of the person’s life history and/or identity.

In some rare cases called dissociative fugue, the person may forget most or all of their personal information, and may sometimes even travel to a different location and adopt a completely new identity. In all cases of dissociative amnesia, the person has a much greater memory loss than would be expected in the course of normal forgetting.