Recovery of long-term anterograde amnesia, but not retrograde amnesia, after initiation of an anti-epileptic drug in a case of transient epileptic amnesia

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 385-389

  Midorikawa, Akira ^a,b   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^b  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerated forgetting; Memory consolidation; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SEIZURE; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECT; EPILEPSY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SUBICULUM; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47549119373     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701851536     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Blake, R. V., Wroe, S. J., Breen, E. K. and McCarthy, R. A. (2000) Accelerated forgetting in patients with epilepsy: Evidence for an impairment in memory consolidation. Brain, 123, pp. 472-483.
2. Butler, C. R., Graham, K. S., Hodges, J. R., Kapur, N., Wardlaw, J. M. and Zeman, A. Z. (2007) The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia. Annals of Neurology, 61, pp. 587-598.
3. Corridan, B. J., Leung, S. N. and Jenkins, I. H. (2001) A case of sleeping and forgetting. Lancet, 357, p. 524.
4. Fukatsu, R., Fujii, T., Sato, M., Kimura, I. and Saso, S. (1994) Influence of age on long-term memory. Rinsho Shinkeigaku, 34, pp. 777-781.
5. Kapur, N. (1993) Transient epileptic amnesia-a clinical update and a reformulation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 56, pp. 1184-1190.
6. Manes, F., Hodges, J. R., Graham, K. S. and Zeman, A. (2001) Focal autobiographical amnesia in association with transient epileptic amnesia. Brain, 124, pp. 499-509.
7. Manes, F., Graham, K. S., Zeman, A., de Lujan Calcagno, M. and Hodges, J. R. (2005) Autobiographical amnesia and accelerated forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 76, pp. 1387-1391.
8. Mendes, M. H. (2002) Transient epileptic amnesia: An under-diagnosed phenomenon? Three more cases. Seizure, 11, pp. 238-242.
9. O'Connor, M., Sieggreen, M. A., Ahern, G., Schomer, D. and Mesulam, M. (1997) Accelerated forgetting in association with temporal lobe epilepsy and paraneoplastic encephalitis. Brain and Cognition, 35, pp. 71-84.
10. Shinagawa, F., Kobayashi, S., Fujita, K. and Maekawa, H. (1990) Japanese Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, Nihon Bunka Kagakusya, Tokyo
11. Sugishita, M. (2001) The Japanese Version of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised, Nihon Bunka Kagakusha, Tokyo
12. Wechsler, D. (1981) WAIS-R manual, The Psychological Corporation, New York
13. Wechsler, D. (1987) Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised manual, The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX
14. Zeman, A. Z., Boniface, S. J. and Hodges, J. R. (1998) Transient epileptic amnesia: A description of the clinical and neuropsychological features in 10 cases and a review of the literature. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 64, pp. 435-443.