Transient Global Amnesia
From Patient Encounter to Clinical Neuroscience
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2017
XVI, 133 pages
978-3-319-54476-2 (ISBN)
Description
This brief, accessible book covers all aspects of transient global amnesia (TGA). First, it deals with the history of TGA before moving on to clinical and diagnostic features, and differential diagnosis. The investigation and management of TGA is then discussed, followed by treatment and prognosis. Each of the chapters is devoted to a practical and structured overview of the particular topic, with use of case studies to illustrate the material. Based in part on the author's experience of TGA cases over 15 years and in part on a review of the published literature, this book will hopefully enlighten clinicians from a broad range of medical backgrounds on the clinical features, investigation, and pathogenesis of TGA.
Transient Global Amnesia is aimed at any clinician with an interest in, or who encounters patients with, acute amnesia: neurologists, general physicians, old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, clinical neuropsychologists, and primary care physicians, as wellas other professions allied to medicine with similar interests, such as members of memory assessment teams.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVI, 133 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.
File size
2,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-54476-2 (9783319544762)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-54476-2
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Person
A. J. Larner MA MD MRCP(UK) DHMSA PhD is a Consultant Neurologist at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, and Society of Apothecaries' Honorary Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK.
Content
History of TGA.- Clinical features, diagnostic criteria, and possible variants of TGA.- Differential diagnosis of TGA.- Investigation and management of TGA.- Prognosis of TGA.- Epidemiology of TGA.- Aetiopathogenesis of TGA.
