Differential Diagnosis of Amnesia
• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome • Psychosis • Postsurgical (e.g., mammillary body surgery, bilateral temporal lobectomy) • Medications (e.g., midazolam and other benzodiazepines) • Malingering • Infections (herpes simplex encephalitis, meningitis) • Hypoglycemia • Head trauma • Degenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease) • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease • CNS neoplasms • Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) (especially when involving thalamus, basal forebrain, and hippocampus) • Cerebral hypoxia
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