Transient global amnesia (medical condition): Sudden, short-term memory loss.
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»Introduction: Transient global amnesia
»Symptoms of Transient global amnesia
Transient global amnesia: a disorder that affects mainly old people who have not sustained a recent head injury and who do not have epilepsy; characterized by the abrupt onset of the inability to form memories (i.e., anterograde amnesia) and the resulting bewilderment; during the episode, which may last minutes to a few hours, the person is fully conscious, oriented, can perform complex activities, and has a normal result on neurologic examination; of uncertain etiology, but currently most often attributed to an ischemic episode affecting the mesial temporal lobe region.
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Transient global amnesia: A syndrome characterized by a transient loss of the ability to form new memories. It primarily occurs in middle aged or elderly individuals, and episodes may last from minutes to hours. During the period of amnesia, immediate and recent memory abilities are impaired, but the level of consciousness and ability to perform other intellectual tasks are preserved. The condition is related to bilateral dysfunction of the medial portions of each TEMPORAL LOBE. Complete recovery normally occurs, and recurrences are unusual. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp429-30)
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Transient global amnesia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Transient global amnesia, or a subtype of Transient global amnesia,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Transient global amnesia (medical condition): See Transient global amnesia (disease information).
»Introduction: Transient global amnesia
»Symptoms of Transient global amnesia
Source - NIH
The following list attempts to classify Transient global amnesia into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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