Severe emotional stress can lead to a myriad of somatic or neurologic problems, including transient global amnesia, a syndrome of retrograde and anterograde memory loss without focal neurologic ...

A reader's friend had an episode where she seemed confused as to where she was and how she got there. They took her to the emergency room, where the doctor said she had an otherwise completely normal ...

He had a classic case of transient global amnesia (TGA), an enigmatic form of memory loss that doctors still can't explain 65 years after it was first described. It was unusual enough — about five to ...

What is transient global amnesia? Transient global amnesia is a sudden, temporary episode of memory loss that can’t be attributed to a more common neurological condition, such as epilepsy or stroke.

January 7, 2010 — A high prevalence of internal jugular vein (IJV) valve insufficiency appears to be present in patients with a clinical diagnosis of transient global amnesia (TGA), suggesting that ...

When a Philadelphia man arrives in Boston without remembering the trip, it’s up to a neurologist to figure out what went wrong. I ONCE HAD A PATIENT, a salesman who drove from Philadelphia to Boston ...

Let’s just say that reasonable people (or, even, people in Congress) can disagree, reasonably, about the most appropriate way to deal with the situation in Syria. I’m OK with that. But here is what I ...

A man visited hospital after getting amnesia 10 minutes after having sex with his wife. He couldn't retain new information and his memory of the day before was temporarily wiped. He was diagnosed with ...

Matters of the Mind with Dr. Jay Fawver is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

Country great Rodney Crowell has seldom seen a life experience that he couldn’t turn into a song. And that includes a truly unsettling experience that he had a year ago this week. Crowell was having a ...