Enhanced cortisol secretion in acute transient global amnesia

Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a clinical syndrome characterized by a sudden and severe disturbance in memory, which interferes with the learning of novel information and usually resolves within several hours. During the episode, patients cannot encode and recall new information (anterograde amnesia affecting episodic long-term memory), and therefore, repeatedly ask the same questions concerning their environment. In many, but not all patients a partial or “patchy” impairment of retrograde episodic long-term memory is also present; patients have difficulty encoding and recalling episodic information that was learned (hours, days, months or even years) before the onset of the amnestic attack, however this is clinically far less prominent (Jager et al., 2009).

Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - August 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Martin Griebe, Anne Ebert, Frauke Nees, Katharina Katic, Benjamin Gerber, Kristina Szabo Source Type: research