amnesia/headache

BACKGROUND Sexual activity may on occasion be complicated by neurologic syndromes of headache and amnesia. These syndromes may be alarming not only to patients but also to medical practitioners unfamiliar with them, initiating inappropriate investigations or advice. OBJECTIVE To review the clinical

We report the case of a 42-year-old man with repeated attacks of headache associated with retrograde amnesia. Neuropsychological tests before and after the major episode of amnesia showed mild neuropsychological deficits but with spared anterograde memory and learning functions. The amnesia was

Pseudomigraine with pleocytosis (PMP) is an uncommon disease in Japan. The diagnostic criteria include at least one episode of transient neurological deficit accompanied or followed by migraine-like severe headache, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis, and normal neuroimaging. Both the etiology

We investigated qualitative features of confabulation in a case with basal forebrain amnesia. A 66-year-old, right-handed woman with a 8th-grade education, was admitted to the Rehabilitation Department of Tohoku University Hospital, Japan, for evaluation and therapy of amnesia. Her previous medical

BACKGROUND According to the criteria of Hodges and Warlow, transient global amnesia is defined by sudden onset of isolated anterograde amnesia of spontaneous resolution within one to twenty-four hours. Its pathophysiological mechanisms are still uncertain. METHODS In a retrospective study, we have

Acute confusional migraine in children and transient global amnesia in adults share a number of similar clinical manifestations. Acute confusional migraine in 6 children (mean age: 11.7 years; range: 7.5-17 years) was characterized by transient episodes of amnesia and acute confusion lasting 1-12

The authors have studied 30 patients with transient global amnesia aged between 49 and 76 years (median age of 63 years), without focal neurologic signs that have been followed for periods varying between 6 months and 10 years. Three of the patients had recurrent attacks of transient global amnesia,

BACKGROUND Transient global amnesia (TGA) is an intriguing clinical syndrome that has not been studied in a series of Chinese patients. METHODS From 1989 to 1995, we observed 28 consecutive patients with TGA. Their clinical characteristics, risk factors, and outcome were retrospectively reviewed and