amnesia (transient)
Last edited 05/2022 and last reviewed 05/2022
Clinical syndrome characterized by sudden onset of anterograde amnesia (inability to encode new memories), accompanied by repetitive questioning, sometimes with a retrograde component, lasting up to 24 hours, without compromise of other neurologic functions (1).
Causes include:
- head injury
- epilepsy (postictal)
- cerebrovascular insufficiency
- Alzheimer's disease - in early disease
- temporal lobe tumours
- transient global amnesia
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