Transient global amnesia: A genetic disorder?

European Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 186-187

  Segers Van Rijn, Joyce ^a   De Brujin, S F T M ^a  

^a HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA;

AGED; AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PEDIGREE;

EID: 77949900146     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000290249     Document Type: Letter

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