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​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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