Transient epileptic amnesia secondary to hippocampal dysplasia mimicking transient global amnesia
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Transient epileptic amnesia secondary to hippocampal dysplasia mimicking transient global amnesia
Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA) is a recently recognized subtype of temporal lobe epilepsy. TEA is characterized by brief, recurrent attacks of amnesia in late middle to old-aged subjects, averaging 60 years of age [1,2]. In nearly half the cases, patients complain of long term accelerated forgetting and autobiographical memory impairment in 70% [2]. Bartsch and Butler proposed diagnostic cri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2016.10.009