Transient global amnesia as a postictal state from recurrent partial seizures
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C A Tassinari1, C Ciarmatori, C Alesi
1Department of Neurology, University of Bologna, Bellaria Hospital, Italy.
Epilepsia
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 60-year-old patient had a 3-year history of recurrent memory disturbances. The video electroencephalographic (EEG) recording of one attack showed that the amnesic state, which clinically resembled transient global amnesia, was characterized by a normal EEG tracing followed by electroclinical complex partial seizures. We suggest that "epileptic" transient global amnesia is postictal in nature.