Transient Global Amnesia

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1045-1054

  Hunter, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

CA1; DWI; Epileptic amnesia; Transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; STROKE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 80055116782     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: 15579875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2011.07.004     Document Type: Review

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