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AMNESIA |
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degenerative disease: |
Alzheimer's disease Huntington's chorea |
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infections: |
meningitis encephalitis Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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metabolic/endocrine: |
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome |
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drugs: |
benzodiazepenes |
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other causes: |
cerebrovascular accident (especially with involvement of thalamus, basal forebrain and hippocampus)intracerebral tumours cerebral hypoxia post-neurosurgery , eg. bilateral temporal lobectomy, mammillary body surgerytransient global amnesia head injury psychosis malingering |
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