Psychologic/functional forms of memory disorder

J Griem; J Stone; A Carson; M D Kopelman

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-801772-2.00035-7

Psychologic/functional forms of memory disorder

Handb Clin Neurol. 2016:139:407-417. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801772-2.00035-7.

Authors

J Griem¹, J Stone², A Carson³, M D Kopelman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
³ Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and of Rehabilitation Medicine, NHS Lothian and Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

PMID: 27719860
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801772-2.00035-7

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss the wide variety of patients who may attend a memory clinic or other health services presenting with memory symptoms but who do not have dementia. These diagnoses may include a wide range of neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders; in this chapter we will focus on other causes of memory symptoms which may be labeled psychologic or functional, or be more obviously part of an established psychiatric disorder. We describe the differential categorization recently posited by Stone et al. (2015), and consider important aspects of assessment and management in these cases.

Keywords: assessment; functional symptoms; management; memory; memory clinics; neurologic causes; neuropsychiatric; nonneurologic causes; psychogenic; psychologic or psychiatric memory problems.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Memory Disorders / diagnosis*
Memory Disorders / psychology*
Mental Disorders / diagnosis*