Neuropsychological and SPECT scan findings during and after transient global amnesia: evidence for the differential impairment of remote episodic memory. Issue 11 (November 1993)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Evans, J; Wilson, B; Wraight, E P; Hodges, J R
• Is Part Of: Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. Volume 56:Issue 11(1993)
• Page Start: 1227
• Page End: 1230
• Publication Date: 1993-11
• Subjects: Neurology -- Periodicals; Nervous system -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.56.11.1227
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-3050

Abstract

Abstract : A patient had neuropsychological testing during, and at two days and seven weeks after a transient global amnesia (TGA) attack. During the attack she exhibited a characteristically profound anterograde amnesia but a limited remote memory loss; the most striking impairment was a deficit in personal episodic memory revealed by her performance on the Autobiographical Memory Interview. Personal and general semantic information was less impaired although there were indications of a temporal gradient in the impairment. When tested after the attack, she demonstrated normal anterograde and retrograde memory. A SPECT scan performed during TGA showed a focal reduction in cerebral perfusion in the postero-medial temporal lobes bilaterally which had resolved after seven weeks.