TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA DRIVER

TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA DRIVER

Here's an example: a taxi driver remembers having breakfast, picking up a passenger outside a suburban train station at about 9 AM, and then next 'comes to' in his taxi, alone, at 4.30 PM on the other side of town. Global means that the loss of memory is severe and often total.īecause a transient global amnesia episode or 'attack' is defined by its severe amnesia, what happens during the attack can only be described by a witness, as the patient has no recollection of the event. Transient indicates that what happens is brief and, importantly, that the symptoms resolve completely. The term transient global amnesia describes what happens in an attack and was coined in the 1950s because no one could confidently explain the mechanism. However, transient global amnesia does not have the sinister implications of a transient ischemic attack, it is not the precursor to a stroke.

It is often wrongly diagnosed as a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or 'mini' stroke. Transient global amnesia is a unique and relatively common neurologic event that is poorly understood and frequently misdiagnosed.