Transient global amnesia mimics: Transient epileptic amnesia

Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-101

  Nicastro, Nicolas ^a   Picard, Fabienne ^a   Assal, Frederic ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Temporal lobe epilepsy; Transient epileptic amnesia; Transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM;

AGED; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY DISORDER; OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 84899618513     PISSN: 22133232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebcr.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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