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Amnesia and vegetative abnormalities after irradiation treatment: a case study
Author(s) -
Christianson S. Å.,
Neppe V.,
Hoffman H.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1994.tb02738.x
Subject(s) - amnesia , memory disorder , etiology , long term memory , retrograde amnesia , semantic memory , memory impairment , episodic memory , third ventricle , psychology , autobiographical memory , medicine , neuroscience , psychiatry , cognitive disorder , cognition , cognitive impairment
This paper describes a case of a patient (GX) with a brain tumour in the third ventricle who developed a syndrome of amnestic disorder and vegetative abnormalities (hyperphagia, oligodipsia) after irradiation treatment that followed brain surgery. The patient shows an extremely poor long‐term memory on both visually and verbally presented material, and of autobiographical events occurring after the onset of the illness, but some preserved memory functions on short‐term memory tasks, semantic memory tasks, and implicit memory tasks. Given the onset of symptoms only after irradiation (a memory deficit in particular), and the non‐invasive nature of the surgery, the probable etiology is post‐irradiation syndrome.