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Transient epileptic amnesia

Visiting Neurology Fellow, Memory and Aging Center, University of California at San Francisco, Suite 502, 350 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; cbutler@memory.ucsf.edu

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In 1889, the British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson described the case of Dr Z, a medical practitioner who suffered from an unusual variety of epilepsy. During his seizures, he retained consciousness and was able to engage in complex, purposeful behaviour for which he was later amnesic. On one occasion he felt the onset of a seizure while examining a patient. During this attack, he correctly diagnosed pneumonia, prescribed treatment and wrote in the patient’s notes, but later had no recollection of having done so (fig 1).

View larger version (225K):   Figure 1 John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) documented the case of Dr Z, who describes one of his amnestic seizures in the extract (Brain, 1889).

CASE STUDY

A 69 year old, . . . [Full text of this article]