Differential diagnosis of amnesia are :
-psychosis -drugs ( benzodiazepines, midazolam, alcohol) -postsurgical ( lobectomy) -hypoglycemia -Central nervous system neoplasm -Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease -meningitis -herpes simplex encephalitis -cerebal hypoxia -cerebrovascular accident ( hippocampus, thalamus, basal forebrain) -degenerative disease ( Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease) -thiamine deficiency -alcoholism ( Korsakoff syndrome) -transient global amnesia ( emotional stress, exertion, minor trauma, spontaneous) -trauma to the the head
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