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Memory can not only be absent, it can be clearly altered. There are alterations or distortions that can appear to anyone. Arriving at a point where it is difficult for us to establish clear boundaries between what is lived and what is remembered. This time we are going to talk about qualitative memory alterations. Memory and recognition disorders.
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- What is jamais vu?
What is déjà vu?
It is the experience of believing that we have already seen something that we really know is the first time we see it, and it appears in a normal and clinical population. In a normal population it is usually a temporary phenomenon that lasts a few seconds and occurs under conditions of fatigue, whereas in the psychiatric population the sensation is usually very prolonged with the presence of depersonalization.
Phenomena related to this are reduplicative paramnesia (affirming that you are in a place where you have been before even though this has not occurred), and pseudopresenting (the feeling of having witnessed an event without having been like that, having the feeling of have been able to predict it).
What is cryptoamnesia?
It is the experience in which a memory is not lived as such, but is believed to be something that has been experienced for the first time, so there is a failure in recognition. It occurs with semantic material, when this recognition has not been associated with personalized keys or episodic memory. There is confusion about the origin of an idea, of a semantic content, memories of real events are confused with memories of self-generated thoughts.
What is jamais vu?
In this case, the subject recognizes a situation, but does not experience a sense of familiarity. A related phenomenon is the fact that words become meaningless sound articulations when we repeat them, and this is known as "loss of meaning of words."
MEMORY DEFICIT IN OTHER CLINICAL PICTURES. Emotional disorders:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Schizophrenia
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