While the literature suggests that Spanish Flu—despite devastation it caused—suffers from social amnesia, this article begs to differ. Building on multiplicity of manners in which past maintains itself present and specifically focusing Erll’s distinction between remembrance knowledge as two poles collective memory, we shed light memory Flu its entirety. First, our analysis recognizes COVID-19 a...

In a serial reaction time task, procedural memory was examined in Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Thirty-one DID patients were tested for inter-identity transfer of procedural learning and their memory performance was compared with 25 normal controls and 25 controls instructed to simulate DID. Results of patients seemed to indicate a pattern of inter-identity amnesia. Simulators, however,...

Abstract Background In humans, the drug metabolizing enzyme CYP2D6 is highly polymorphic resulting in substantial differences metabolism of drugs including anti-arrhythmics, neuroleptics, and opioids. The objective this study was to phenotype a population 100 horses from five different breeds assess metabolic activity equine homolog using codeine as probe drug. Administration common method used...

The review by Wortzel and Arciniegas of the phenomenology and neuroanatomy of memory is a welcome complement to our psychiatric clinical perspective on the concept of amnesia in relation to crime. The authors raise their concerns in noting that certain concepts referred to in the literature are inconsistent with the phenomenology and neurobiology of memory. In response, we clarify the DSM-IV-TR...

Offenders often claim to have committed their crimes in a dissociative state and some allege amnesia for their criminal actions. Although much research has examined dissociative and related phenomena, such as amnesia, in victims and witnesses to traumatic and criminal events, little research has investigated dissociation in incarcerated offenders, particularly in relation to their offences. The...

BACKGROUND A major symptom of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID; formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) is dissociative amnesia, the inability to recall important personal information. Only two case studies have directly addressed autobiographical memory in DID. Both provided evidence suggestive of dissociative amnesia. The aim of the current study was to objectively assess transfer of autob...