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NEUROLOGY Previous Volume 352:119-121 January 13, 2005 Number 2 Next

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Ten years ago, the story I was hearing did not ring any bells. It went like this. During recent months, an engineer in his 40s had been having episodes of amnesia. Every so often, his mind would scramble: "Where am I? How did I get here? What am I meant to be doing?" This sense of bewilderment lasted for just a few minutes, during which time he failed to take in the answers offered to his insistent questioning. Some of the attacks occurred on awakening. A curious story: recurrent transient amnesia, affecting both retrograde memory, for the recent past, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Zeman is a consultant neurologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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