Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA)

Evidence-based neurology checklist on transient epileptic amnesia (tea): Epidemiology This is a syndrome of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Males account for half to two-thirds of cases Mean onset age is 57-62 years It is the most salient feature of epilepsy in most cases It is the only feature of…

Epidemiology

  • This is a syndrome of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Males account for half to two-thirds of cases
  • Mean onset age is 57-62 years
  • It is the most salient feature of epilepsy in most cases
  • It is the only feature of epilepsy in a third of cases
  • Frequent episodes: median of 12 annually
  • It may develop after years of focal retrograde amnesia (FRA)
  • It may be associated with amygdala enlargement

Features of amnesia

Accelerated long term forgetting (ALF)

Seizures: types

Compulsive versifying

Other reported features

References

  1. Zeman A, Butler C. Transient epileptic amnesia. Curr Opinion Neurol 2010; 23:610-616.
  2. Butler CR, Graham KS, Hodges JR, Kapur N, Wardlaw JM, Zeman AZJ. The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia. Ann Neurol 2007; 61:587-598.
  3. Manes F, Graham KS, Zeman A, de Lujan Calcagno M, Hodges JR. Autobiographical amnesia and accelerated forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia. JNNP 2005; 76:1387-1391.
  4. Butler CR, Zeman AZ. Recent insights into the impairment of memory in epilepsy: transient epileptic amnesia, accelerated long-term forgetting and remote memory impairment. Brain 2008; 13:2243-2263.
  5. Milton F, Muhlert N, Pindus DM, et al. Remote memory deficits in transient epileptic amnesia. Brain 2010; 133:1368-1379.
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