Transient epileptic amnesia: A concise review

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 243-245

  Asadi Pooya, Ali A ^a,b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Criteria; EEG; Transient epileptic amnesia; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AMNESIA; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA;

CRITERIA; EEG; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; TREATMENT;

AMNESIA; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 84892979602     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.10.021     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Zeman A.Z.J., Boniface S.J., Hodges J.R. Transient epileptic amnesia: a description of the clinical and neuropsychological features in 10 cases and a review of the literature. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1998, 64:435-443.
2. Pritchard P.B., Holmstrom V.L., Roitzsch J.C., Giacinto J. Epileptic amnesic attacks: benefit from antiepileptic drugs. Neurology 1985, 35:1188-1189.
3. Butler C.R., Graham K.S., Hodges J.R., Kapur N., Wardlaw J.M., Zeman A.Z. The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia. Ann Neurol 2007, 61:587-598.
4. Mendes M.H. Transient epileptic amnesia: an under-diagnosed phenomenon? Three more cases. Seizure 2002, 11(4):238-242.
5. Kapur N. Transient epileptic amnesia-a clinical update and reformulation. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1993, 56:1184-1190.
6. Palmini A.L., Gloor P., Jones-Gotman M. Pure amnestic seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain 1992, 115:749-769.
7. Gallassi R. Epileptic amnesic syndrome: an update and further considerations. Epilepsia 2006, 47(Suppl. 2):103-105.
8. Hodges J.R., Warlow C.P. Syndromes of transient amnesia: towards a classification. A study of 153 cases. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1990, 53(10):834-843.
9. Hoefeijzers S., Dewar M., Della Sala S., Zeman A., Butler C. Accelerated long-term forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia: an acquisition or consolidation deficit?. Neuropsychologia 2013, 51(8):1549-1555.
10. Milton F., Butler C.R., Benattayallah A., Zeman A.Z. The neural basis of autobiographical memory deficits in transient epileptic amnesia. Neuropsychologia 2012, 50(14):3528-3541.
11. Walsh R.D., Wharen R.E., Tatum W.O. Complex transient epileptic amnesia. Epilepsy Behav 2011, 20(2):410-413.
12. Butler C., van Erp W., Bhaduri A., Hammers A., Heckemann R., Zeman A. Magnetic resonance volumetry reveals focal brain atrophy in transient epileptic amnesia. Epilepsy Behav 2013, 28(3):363-369.
13. Butler C.R., Bhaduri A., Acosta-Cabronero J., Nestor P.J., Kapur N., Graham K.S., et al. Transient epileptic amnesia: regional brain atrophy and its relationship to memory deficits. Brain 2009, 132(Pt 2):357-368.
14. Della Marca G., Dittoni S., Pilato F., Profice P., Losurdo A., Testani E., et al. Teaching NeuroImages: transient epileptic amnesia. Neurology 2010, 75(10):e47-e48.
15. Marson A.G., Al-Kharusi A.M., Alwaidh M. The SANAD study of effectiveness of carbamazepine, gabapentin, lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine, or topiramate for treatment of partial epilepsy: an unblinded randomized controlled trial. Lancet 2007, 369:1000-1015.
16. Asadi-Pooya A.A., Sperling M.R. Antiepileptic drugs: a clinician's manual 2009, Oxford University Press, [264 pages, ISBN13: 978-0-19-536821-5; ISBN10: 0-19-536821-5].
17. Consoli D., Bosco D., Postorino P., Galati F., Plastino M., Perticoni G.F., et al. Levetiracetam versus carbamazepine in patients with late poststroke seizures: a multicenter prospective randomized open-label study (EpIC Project). Cerebrovasc Dis 2012, 34(4):282-289.
18. Villanueva V., Sánchez-Álvarez J.C., Peña P., Puig J.S., Caballero-Martínez F., Gil-Nagel A. Treatment initiation in epilepsy: an expert consensus in Spain. Epilepsy Behav 2010, 19(3):332-342.
19. Soper A.C., Wagner M.T., Edwards J.C., Pritchard P.B. Transient epileptic amnesia: a neurosurgical case report. Epilepsy Behav 2011, 20(4):709-713.
20. Razavi M., Barrash J., Paradiso S. A longitudinal study of transient epileptic amnesia. Cogn Behav Neurol 2010, 23(2):142-145.
21. Midorikawa A., Kawamura M. 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 2007, 13(5):385-389.
22. Butler C.R., Zeman A. A case of transient epileptic amnesia with radiological localization. Nat Clin Pract Neurol 2008, 4(9):516-521.
23. Ung K.Y., Larner A.J. Transient amnesia: epileptic or global? A differential diagnosis with significant implications for management. QJM 2012.
24. Schipper S., Riederer F., Sándor P.S., Gantenbein A.R. Acute confusional migraine: our knowledge to date. Expert Rev Neurother 2012, 12(3):307-314.
25. Kopelman M.D. Amnesia: organic and psychogenic. Brit J Psychiatry 1987, 150:428-442.
26. Staniloiu A., Markowitsch H.J., Brand M. Psychogenic amnesia - a malady of the constricted self. Conscious Cogn 2010, 19(3):778-801.
27. Asadi-Pooya A.A., Emami M., Ashjazadeh N., Nikseresht A., Shariat A., Petramfar P., et al. Reasons for uncontrolled seizures in adults; the impact of pseudointractability. Seizure 2013, 22(4):271-274.
28. Asadi-Pooya A.A., Emami M., Sperling M.R. A clinical study of syndromes of idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsy. J Neurol Sci 2013, 324(1-2):113-117.
29. Ioannidis P., Balamoutsos G., Karabela O., Kosmidis M.H., Karacostas D. Transient epileptic amnesia in a memory clinic setting: a report of three cases. Epilepsy Behav 2011, 20(2):414-417.