Retrograde dissociative amnesia may sometimes present as an episodic-autobiographical block, which may encompass the whole past life. Affected patients otherwise have largely preserved semantic memories; they can read, write, calculate and know how to behave in social situations. Additionally, they can encode new autobiographic-episodic memories long term, though the acquisition of these new events may be less emotionally-tagged in comparison to normal probands, often lacking that feeling of warmth and first person autonoetic connection (Reinhold & Markowitsch, 2009 ; Levine, Svoboda, Turner, Mandic, & Mackey, 2009). Although anterograde memory deficits could occasionally accompany retrograde dissociative (psychogenic) amnesia, cases of.
