When a patient presents with an episode of transient memory loss without other neurologic symptoms, the diagnosis "transient global amnesia" (TGA) is often made, but the etiology is often unclear.

Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Episodes of transient amnesia, which frequently occur on awakening and are associated with other memory problems, may be a symptom of a distinct type of epilepsy. A British ...

Epileptic seizures can cause shorter memory lapses called transient epileptic amnesia. While people with strokes usually have physical symptoms, as well, some with amnesia are actually having strokes, ...

Transient amnesic syndromes are striking clinical phenomena that are commonly encountered by physicians in acute medical settings. Diagnosis of such syndromes can be challenging, and their causes have ...

ONE morning Paul Whiting woke up and couldn’t remember his way to work. “It was frightening,” he says. “I had to go downstairs and ask my wife.” As it turns out, the 57-year-old from Tiverton in Devon ...

Anti-epileptic medicines are available to reduce the risk of a seizure. But people with photosensitive epilepsy should take steps to minimize their exposure to seizure triggers. Epilepsy is a brain ...