Autobiographical amnesia and accelerated forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia
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Autobiographical amnesia and accelerated forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia.
BACKGROUND Recurrent brief isolated episodes of amnesia associated with epileptiform discharges on EEG recordings have been interpreted as a distinct entity termed transient epileptic amnesia (TEA). Patients with TEA often complain of autobiographical amnesia for recent and remote events, but show normal anterograde memory. OBJECTIVE To investigate (a) accelerated long term forgetting and (b)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.036582