The challenges to individuals with epilepsy extend far beyond the seizures. Co‐morbidities
in epilepsy are very common and are often more problematic to individuals than the seizures …

A diagnosis of dementia is devastating at any age but diagnosis in younger patients
presents a particular challenge. The differential diagnosis is broad as late presentation of …

Background Tests sensitive to presymptomatic changes in Alzheimer's disease could be
valuable for clinical trials. Accelerated long-term forgetting—during which memory …

Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) refers to abnormal forgetting over hours to weeks
despite normal acquisition or initial consolidation. Since standardised assessments of …

Transient amnesic syndromes are striking clinical phenomena that are commonly
encountered by physicians in acute medical settings. Diagnosis of such syndromes can be …

Young-onset dementia is a neurologic syndrome that affects behavior and cognition of
patients younger than 65 years of age. Although frequently misdiagnosed, a systematic …

For an understanding of cognitive impairment in epilepsy, it is essential to appreciate that
static and dynamic factors affect brain function in this disease. Whereas morphological …

Abstract Accelerated Long-term Forgetting (ALF) is a memory deficit characterised by normal
retention up to relatively short intervals (eg, minutes, hours) with increased forgetting over …

Transient Epileptic Amnesia (TEA) is a form of temporal lobe epilepsy associated with ictal
and interictal memory disturbance. Some patients with TEA exhibit Accelerated Long-term …

Several experiments carried out with a subset of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy have
demonstrated normal memory performance at standard delays of recall (ie minutes to hours) …