University:
The University of British Columbia
Course:
MEDD 448 | Transition into Postgraduate Education and Practice
Academic year:

2024
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168

Pages:

1
Author:

O. Touhami

‭Amnesia: Forgetting and Memory Disorders‬ ‭-‬‭Positive diagnosis: o‬ ‭Forgetting facts and “episodes”.‬ ‭‬ A o ‭ utobiography and public events.‬ ‭o‬ ‭Preservation of semantic acquisitions (“universal”‬ ‭school knowledge) and motor procedures (driving,‬ ‭etc.).‬ ‭o‬ ‭Preservation of vigilance.‬ ‭‬ S o ‭ ounding about the activities.‬ ‭o‬ ‭± Confabulations: memories created or reconstructed with loss of‬ ‭chronology. Production of plausible but erroneous information, in‬ ‭an unintentional manner.‬ ‭o‬ ‭Anterograde amnesia: forgetting of episodes occurring after amnesia‬ ‭has developed.‬‭Brain injury January 2011 and no new memories‬ ‭since that date.‬ ‭o‬ ‭Retrograde amnesia: forgetting episodes that occurred before‬ ‭amnesia.‬‭Inability to retrieve memories formed before the brain‬ ‭injury.‬ ‭o‬ L ‭ acunar amnesia: forgetting episodes that occurred during a period (after‬ ‭confusion, amnesic stroke, epileptic seizure, etc.).‬‭Period of life that the‬ ‭patient does not remember, there is a gap in his life.‬ ‭-‬‭Differential diagnosis : o‬ ‭Lack of the word: not a memory problem but a language problem. Loses his‬ ‭o‬ ‭way: not a memory problem but a problem with orientation in space.‬ ‭‬ C o ‭ onfusion.‬ ‭o‬ ‭Depression and psychiatric disorders.‬ ‭Transient‬ ‭Amnesia‬ ‭Quick setup‬ ‭Phased installation‬ ‭ tiology‬ E ‭Amnesic stroke‬ ‭Complex partial seizure‬ ‭Head trauma‬ ‭Encephalitis (viral +++)‬ ‭Korsakoff‬ ‭encephalopathy‬ ‭Vascular-anoxia-CO‬ ‭Dementia (Alzheimer)‬ ‭Brain tumor‬ ‭Paraneoplastic encephalitis‬ ‭-‬ ‭Etiological diagnosis: linked to lesion or dysfunction of the‬ ‭hippocampus-mammillothalamic- frontal circuit.‬