Traumatic amnesia

Traumatic amnesia-fiction syndrome is also called traumatic Korsakov syndrome. A clinical manifestation of acute mental disorder caused by craniocerebral injury. Because the brain suffers various kinds of trauma, directly or indirectly, and the mental disorders and sequelae that appear on this basis are the mental disorders associated with brain injury. The diagnosis should indicate the type of craniocerebral injury and the type of sequelae; such as concussion syndrome, psychotic symptoms caused by brain contusion, personality changes caused by cerebral contusion, dementia, amnesia syndrome, etc. Mental disorders caused by craniocerebral injury are divided into acute mental disorders and chronic mental disorders.

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