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Transient global amnesia: an intriguing yet benign disturbance

open access: yesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Leonardo Pantoni
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Transient Global Amnesia

open access: yesActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2014
Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a sudden and severe anterograde memory disturbance accompanied by various degrees of retrograde amnesia and sometimes executive dysfunction. TGA affects elderly individuals and men and women equally. During the episode, patients cannot recall novel episodic information and therefore repeatedly ask the same questions ...
MARAZZI, Chiara   +8 more
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Thalamic Amnesia Mimicking Transient Global Amnesia

open access: yesThe Neurologist, 2015
Transient global amnesia is a benign syndrome and one of the most frequent discharges from the emergency department that can hardly be distinguished from other mimicking diseases. No consensus in the evaluation of transient global amnesia has yet been found in the emergency setting.We describe a 69-year-old woman who presented to our emergency ...
Giannantoni N. M.   +9 more
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Transient Global Amnesia

open access: yesNeurologic Clinics, 2011
Transient global amnesia syndrome was initially described more than a century ago. Although the clinical syndrome is easily recognized and highly consistent in its characteristic features, the underlying pathophysiology has remained elusive. Proposed mechanisms include focal ischemic lesions or local nonischemic energy failures.
Walter B. Forman
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Aetiology of transient global amnesia

open access: yesThe Lancet, 1998
The pathophysiology of transient global amnesia (TGA) has been obscure since the definition of this syndrome more than 30 years ago. Current hypotheses include migraine, seizure, or transient cerebral arterial ischaemia. However, none of these potential mechanisms explain both the absence of other neurological signs or symptoms during TGA, and its ...
Lewis, Steven L, MD
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