![]() ![]() She forgets from one moment to the other what she has just said or what she has just done. She does not know, for example, since when she was last with her children, but she can well tell in detail an old family event. In her amnesic state, she cannot give any detail on recent events, but she can speak of the past. She is asking for news of all her children, including those who died over 30 years ago. She recognizes her husband, her children, but not everybody who would come to the house. She knows whom she is, during this amnesic state, but she does not remember her age. Allan Hamilton (1878) and, independently, Charlton Bastian (1880) described amnesic states, but in none of these clinical accounts are there recognisable characteristics of transient global amnesia.īenon reported that the patient typically asked repeated questions: ‘But where am I here? Where am I here? Where am I here?’ He noted: ‘One explains it to her, but she goes on asking. The first mention of the ictus amnésique – subsequently used by Guyotat, Bender, Fisher and Adams – appears to have been by Jean Alfred Fournier who in 1879 reported amnesic spells (with few details) in patients with tabes and general paresis, which he was the first to have linked with syphilitic brain infection. However, during the 19th century, transient memory impairment became associated with hysteria, a period that had its peak in 1898 when Ganser reported the transitory amnesic state with vorbeireden (approximate answers) now known as the Ganser state. Since Louyer-Villermay used the term amnésie in 1819, there have been several reports of patients with more or less quickly reversible episodes of disturbed memory. 5 noted: ‘The loss of memory has been called ‘‘amnesia’’’. In 1786, Benjamin Rush in his Influence of Phys. Various forms of the Greek word áµνηστια for oblivion, from not remembering, were used occasionally in English in the 16–17th century in Latin and Greek forms. ![]()
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