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Transient Epileptic Amnesia: A Mystery of Human Memory, Are There Lessons to be Learned?

1Hospitalist, Ottumwa Regional Health Center, Ottumwa, Iowa

2PGY1 Pharmacy Resident, Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, Iowa


International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neurology. 2017, Vol. 5 No. 1, 9-10
DOI: 10.12691/ijcen-5-1-3
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Nishant Tripathi, Niki Koirala. Transient Epileptic Amnesia: A Mystery of Human Memory, Are There Lessons to be Learned?. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neurology. 2017; 5(1):9-10. doi: 10.12691/ijcen-5-1-3.

Correspondence to: Nishant  Tripathi, Hospitalist, Ottumwa Regional Health Center, Ottumwa, Iowa. Email: nishant55@icloud.com

Abstract

Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA) may be suspected in patients meeting all of the following criteria: 1) History of recurrent witnessed episodes of transient amnesia; 2) Cognitive functions, excluding memory, judged to be intact during typical episodes by a reliable witness; 3) Documented epilepsy. However, patients who lack a documented diagnosis of epilepsy, may meet the two previous criteria. Such rare and atypical cases, as the one described below, require high clinical suspicion for epilepsy, as well as TEA. Here we describe a rather intriguing case of TEA.

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