Transient Global Amnesia in a Patient with Pituitary Adenoma: Causal or Chance Association?
A 65-year-old man with no underlying medical history visited the neurology department due to transient amnesia lasting for about 8 h. During the amnesia episode, he was alert but showed repetitive questioning.
Seunghee Na, Eek-Sung Lee, Seung-Jae Lee
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Dissociative-like Spells in a Child With Neurofibromatosis (type 1) [PDF]
Neurofibromatosis, type 1, (NF1) is a common neurocutaneous disorder of childhood. Little is known about the psychiatric aspects of the condition. We present the case of a 10-year-old male with NF1 and complex spells.
Lagges, Ann M, Ph.D. +2 more
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Introduction In 2022 the DGN (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie) published an updated Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) guideline. TGA is characterized by a sudden onset of retrograde and anterograde amnesia for a period of one to a maximum of 24 h (with
Dirk Sander +8 more
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Remote memory deficits in transient epileptic amnesia [PDF]
Transient epileptic amnesia is a form of temporal lobe epilepsy in which sufferers often complain of irretrievable loss of remote memories. We used a broad range of memory tests to clarify the extent and nature of the remote memory deficits in patients with transient epileptic amnesia. Performance on standard tests of anterograde memory was normal.
Milton, Fraser +6 more
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Sneddon's syndrome: clinical and laboratory analysis of 10 cases. [PDF]
Sneddon's syndrome is characterized by livedo reticularis and cerebrovascular lesions. We report the cases of women (mean age, 36.2 +/- 8.1 years) diagnosed with Sneddon's syndrome based on the presence of livedo reticularis and characteristic ...
Akyol, Melih +5 more
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Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation does not affect verbal memory performance in healthy volunteers [PDF]
Introduction: Invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) improves word recognition memory in patients with epilepsy. Recent studies with transcutaneous VNS (tVNS) have also shown positive effects on various subdomains of cognitive functioning in healthy ...
Boon, Paul +8 more
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A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy
Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) is a memory disorder that manifests by a distinct pattern of normal memory for up to an hour after learning, but an increased rate of forgetting during the subsequent hours and days. The topic of ALF has gained much
Rūta Mameniškienė +3 more
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Epilepsy beyond seizures: a review of the impact of epilepsy and its comorbidities on health-related quality of life in dogs [PDF]
Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological conditions in the dog, estimated to affect 0.6 to 0.75 per cent of dogs. Owners of dogs with epilepsy have previously indicated that their dog's quality of life (QoL) is of greatest importance to ...
Packer, R M A, Volk, H A
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Diffusion-weighted imaging for the differential diagnosis of disorders affecting the hippocampus [PDF]
Background: The human hippocampus can be affected in a large variety of very different neurological diseases, of which acute ischemic stroke, transient global amnesia, epilepsy, and limbic encephalitis are the most common.
Förster, Alex +5 more
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Psychogenic amnesia: syndromes, outcome, and patterns of retrograde amnesia [PDF]
There are very few case series of patients with acute psychogenic memory loss (also known as dissociative/functional amnesia), and still fewer studies of outcome, or comparisons with neurological memory-disordered patients.
Casey, Sarah J +8 more
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