Prolonged Transient Global Amnesia: Part of the Clinical Spectrum or a Separate Disease Entity?

Transient global amnesia or transient epileptic amnesia?

Sir, We read with great interest the letter of McCorry and Crowley concerning an attack of transient global amnesia (TGA) considered secondary to herpes simplex viral encephalitis. Some features of the reported attack are unusual. The patient was a relatively young person: 39 years compared with an average age of 61 with TGA. At the beginning the patient suddenly became ‘distressed’; he realize...

Transient global amnesia mimics: Transient epileptic amnesia

We describe the case of a 79-year-old patient referred for suspected transient global amnesia, after an episode of anterograde amnesia which lasted 90 min. An EEG, performed after the episode, showed bilateral temporal electrographic seizures, orienting the diagnosis toward a transient epileptic amnesia. Transient epileptic amnesia is defined by temporal lobe epilepsy characterized by recurrent...

Three sisters covering the transient global amnesia spectrum.

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Transient Global Amnesia

thinking (10) 9 10 10 Verbal fluency (animal) 7 13 13 results of the three assessments are summarized in Table 1. The first neuropsychological assessment revealed that the patient was disoriented as to month, date, and place and was severely impaired in recent memory and verbal fluency. Her remote memory and immediate recall were normal, and her neurological examination was otherwise normal. 99...

Juvenile transient global amnesia.