An international survey of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy recipients. [PDF]
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to address the paucity of studies of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) patients. Methods A total of 1144 people responded to an online survey. Results The respondents included 286 relatives and friends of ECT recipients, from 22 countries.
Harrop C +5 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the gold standard for treatment‐resistant depression (TRD). However, cognitive side effects, mainly anterograde and retrograde amnesia, frequently occur. Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) is tested using more focal seizure
S. Kayser +3 more
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Dissociative Fugue Symptoms in a Middle-Age Hispanic Male: A Case Report
Background: Dissociative amnesia, also referred to as psychogenic amnesia, is a type of retrograde memory loss often associated with traumatic or stressful life events.
Gurtej Gill +3 more
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Towards solving the riddle of forgetting in functional amnesia: recent advances and current opinions [PDF]
Staniloiu A, Markowitsch HJ. Towards solving the riddle of forgetting in functional amnesia: recent advances and current opinions. Frontiers in Psychology.
Angelica eStaniloiu +4 more
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Retrograde amnesia after electroconvulsive therapy: a temporary effect? [PDF]
Objective: Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is generally considered effective against depression, it remains controversial because of its association with retrograde memory loss.
M. Meeter +4 more
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Amnesia for violent crime among young offenders. [PDF]
Amnesia for the perpetration of violent offences is an important issue in medico-legal proceedings. Previous studies of amnesia have mainly relied on selected groups of unconvicted offenders, which raises the question of how reliable the findings are ...
Evans, Ceri +5 more
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Transient Global Amnesia After Screening Esophagogastroduodenoscopy: Incidence and Risk Factors in a 20-Year Single-Center Cohort. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Transient global amnesia (TGA) after esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) has been described only in case reports. Because sudden‐onset amnesia can mimic stroke and other acute central nervous system disorders, TGA requires careful differentiation in the acute setting, and clinicians need to be familiar with this condition.
Kobayashi M +12 more
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Retrograde amnesia for semantic information in Alzheimer’s disease [PDF]
Patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and normal controls were tested on a retrograde amnesia test with semantic content (Neologism and Vocabulary Test, or NVT), consisting of neologisms to be defined. Patients showed a decrement as compared
Knollen, A. +10 more
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Brain lesion and lesion network analyses of anterograde and retrograde amnesia
This thesis investigates lesion location and lesion network analyses in anterograde and retrograde amnesia using a systematic review of amnesia case reports and case series in the published peer-reviewed medical literature.
Ding, Mengyuan
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Two Routes to Losing One’s Past Life: A Brain Trauma, an Emotional Trauma
Organic and psychogenic retrograde amnesia have long been considered as distinct entities and as such, studied separately. However, patterns of neuropsychological impairments in organic and psychogenic amnesia can bear interesting resemblances despite ...
Julie Ouellet +4 more
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