Overview
- Offers an overview of diagnostic and clinical features
- Each chapter is devoted to a practical and structured overview
- Expands on the previous edition with fully updated chapters
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This extensively revised second edition provides a comprehensive overview of transient global amnesia (TGA). First, it deals with the history of TGA before moving on to clinical and diagnostic features and differential diagnosis. Subsequent chapters then discuss the investigation and predisposing and precipitating factors for TGA before attempting to synthesise these many strands in order to formulate ideas about the pathogenesis of TGA. 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 20 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, acuteamnesia: neurologists, general physicians, old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, clinical neuropsychologists, and primary care physicians, as well as other professions allied to medicine with similar interests, such as members of memory assessment teams.
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A. J. Larner MA MD PhD FRCP(UK) DHMSA is a Consultant Neurologist at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK. For more than 20 years he has pursued interests in cognitive disorders including Transient Global Amnesia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transient Global Amnesia
Book Subtitle: From Patient Encounter to Clinical Neuroscience
Authors: A.J. Larner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98939-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98938-5Published: 12 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98941-5Published: 12 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98939-2Published: 10 June 2022
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIX, 179
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences