Sudden loss of ability to recall important personal information, usually related to traumatic or stressful experiences, in the absence of any physical trauma to the brain or drug intoxication
Characterizes ______.
A) dissociative fugue
B) dissociative amnesia
C) retrograde amnesia
D) depersonalization-derealization disorder

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The sudden loss of ability to recall important personal information is a symptom of dissociative amnesia. Dissociative fugue involves sudden and unexpected travel away from home with inability to recall one's past and identity, retrograde amnesia involves loss of memory for events prior to a traumatic event or injury, and depersonalization-derealization disorder involves feeling detached from oneself or one's surroundings.

Sudden Loss of Ability to Recall Important Personal Information, Usually