lacunar amnesia

Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event.

"The way these deaths oc-curred, any reaction is possible, including lacunar amnesia.

"If it's not lacunar amnesia that's blanking out their minds, there may be something here that is doing it."

It was all very well to talk of lacunar amnesia, but there was an undercurrent of horror that he could not shake.

McCoy speculates that the children witnessed the shocking deaths of their parents and are now suffering temporary lacunar amnesia.

(The term "lacuna" means a gap or missing part; for instance, lacunar amnesia is a gap in one's memory about a specific event.)

Thousands of people who have been exposed to psychic phenomena and UFO manifestations have suffered lacunar amnesia; that is, they find they are unable to remember a short period of time before, during, or after their experiences.

Jack Dunne (Winkler), a Vietnam veteran who turns out to have a case of lacunar amnesia, escapes a mental ward in New York City to start a business as a worm farmer in Eureka, California.