Fugue

An episode of altered consciousness in which a person apparently purposefully wanders away from home or work and, in some cases, adopts a new identity. When the fugue ends, the person has no recollection of what has occurred. Fugues are uncommon, and causes include dissociative disorders, temporal lobe epilepsy, depression, head injury, and dementia. (See also amnesia.)

 

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