Abstract

With the rise in the number of elderly individuals with dementia, the importance of the following two types of epileptic amnesia has become increasingly recognized. One is transient epileptic amnesia (TEA), which is known to have a high frequency of complications such as accelerated long-term forgetting and autobiographical amnesia; the definition and significance of the TEA complex syndrome (TEACS), an extension of the TEA concept, are described. The other is epileptic cognitive impairment resembling Alzheimer's disease (ECI-A), the definition and characteristics of which are presented along with cases encountered by the author, as reported for TEACS.

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