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Question: what causes Transient global amnesia? i cant find any clear information on causes or possible causes.
Answer: It is associated with migraines and has been known to be precipitated by relaxation, showers, swimming, and sexual activity.
Question: Trying to find out information anyone has on Transient Global Amnesia or where to go to find infor? Help? I have never heard of this disease or if someone is diagnosed with it, what the prognosis is, but I have a friend who may have it and I would like to know more about it. Thank you.
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Transient global amnesia (TGA), is an anxiety-producing temporary loss of short-term memory. Typically, patients will not be able to remember events for the past few hours, and not be able to retain new information for more than a few minutes. Patients will suffer the effects of TGA for up to 24 hours, after which symptoms resolve. Worldwide, its incidence is approximately 2.9–10/100 000 cases per year.
Question: What is transient Global Amnesia? Woo free points AGAIN?
Answer: Here is info on Transient Global Amnesia:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/transient-global-amnesia/DS01022/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print
Question: can severe cases of schizophrenia lead to amnesia? is it possible for a person suffering from a form of schizophrenia to create their own form of amnesia? have any psychologists ever heard of such a thing? and i'm not talking about transient global amnesia, i mean permanent global amnesia. even if no one has ever heard of such a condition, do you think it's at least possible for this sort of condition to arise? it's for a science fiction story i'm writin, so it's just for reference. thanks.
Answer: I'm a schizophrenia paranoid. I suffered total amnesia from a blow to the head (required brain surgery) of a several month period, about 20 years ago. I am not a psychiatrist so can't honestly say whether amnesia can develop with out injury to a schizophrenia victim. By the way there are several different types of schizophrenia.
Good luck in your research, please don't portray your schizophrenic characters as violent in your writing. Schizophrenics are no more violent than normal people.Good mental health, peace and Love!
Question: Omg! My best friend has amnesia. u have to help me!? My best friend just told me that he thinks he has amnesia. I did some research on it and if he does actually have it it would seem like he has Transient global amnesia because it JUST happened and he didn't get hit in the head or anything.
so what should I do?
should I just go along with the program?
how do i help?
Answer: Tell him to go to his doctor. He could have had a stroke, an infection or epilepsy without even knowing it, as these are common causes of amnesia. Besides head injury.
Question: Transient global amnesia? can a doctor tell if you had Transient global amnesia like by getting a cat scan
Answer: If you think you had an episode of transient global amnesia then you need to get a CT scan just to make sure that you did not have a stroke. A CT scan does show brain changes if the TGA attack is ongoing while the CT scan is being done. I doubt the CT scan would give evidence of a past TGA episode unless there was brain damage but I do not know this for sure. PET scans are also done for TGA. Talk to your physician because any episode resembling a TGA needs to be taken seriously and risk of stroke eliminated. good luck
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