Concept information
Preferred term
developmental amnesia
Definition
- Amnesic syndrome occurring in children. Episodic memory is impaired while semantic memory is relatively preserved. Atrophy of the hippocampus is commonly seen in these patients, often secondary to brain hypoxia.
Broader concept
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Baddeley, A., Vargha-Khadem, F., & Mishkin, M. (2001). Preserved recognition in a case of developmental amnesia: implications for the acquisition of semantic memory? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(3), 357–369. https://doi.org/10.1162/08989290151137403
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Isaacs, E. B., Vargha-Khadem, F., Watkins, K. E., Lucas, A., Mishkin, M., & Gadian, D. G. (2003). Developmental amnesia and its relationship to degree of hippocampal atrophy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(22), 13060–13063. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1233825100
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: open
- • Picard, L. (2017). Vingt ans d’amnésie développementale : quoi de neuf ? Revue de neuropsychologie, 9(4), 229–235. https://doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2017.0435
{{#each properties}}• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Piolino, P., Bulteau, C., & Jambaqué, I. (2020). Memory dysfunctions. In A. Gallagher, C. Bulteau, D. Cohen, & J. L. Michaud (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Vol. 174, p. 93‑110). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64148-9.00008-9
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Vargha-Khadem, F., & Cacucci, F. (2021). A brief history of developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 150, 107689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107689
• Document type: historical study
• Access: closed
- • Vargha-Khadem, F., Gadian, D. G., Watkins, K. E., Connelly, A., Paesschen, W. V., & Mishkin, M. (1997). Differential effects of early hippocampal pathology on episodic and semantic memory. Science, 277(5324), 376–380. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.277.5324.376
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Vargha-Khadem, F., Salmond, C. H., Watkins, K. E., Friston, K. J., Gadian, D. G., & Mishkin, M. (2003). Developmental amnesia: Effect of age at injury. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(17), 10055–10060. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1233756100
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: open
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Disorder of
In other languages
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French
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syndrome amnésique de l’enfant
URI
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