Transient epileptic amnesia in a memory clinic setting: A report of three cases

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 414-417

  Ioannidis, P ^a   Balamoutsos, G ^a   Karabela, O ^b   Kosmidis, M H ^b   Karacostas, D ^a  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Psychogenic amnesia; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Transient epileptic amnesia; Transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AMNESIA; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79951635704     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.12.028     Document Type: Article

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