Pardon my waxing simplistic for wondering if TGA’sĬouldn’t be considered a sort of “panic attack” of the brain.
Has found over the years that anxiety and stress can engender panic attacks Mentioned in the literature as a possible precipitating factor, may be getting Its recurrence is rare and there doesn’t seem to be anyĪs a psychologist, I think there may be an emotional component that, while Neurological events that can occur to a human, perhaps it is the one with the TGA doesn’t usually linger and leaves as subtly as it appears. Of time still haunts me … twelve hours of my life totally gone.” It, described her state as “being in limbo.” Another friend says that the “loss (Sometimes the disorientation isįirst observed by another.) One friend, upon return to linear time as we know Of confusion and of being lost in time arises. Person may be in this short-term amnesia state for hours, then some awareness Is, there is no slurring of speech, no loss of words, no facial muscleĭrooping. Manifestations as there are with, e.g., a TIA, transient ischemic attack. “Where am I?” or “We’re doing what?” With TGA, there are no physical All of a sudden, however, the questions arise, “What just happened?” The individual knows who he or she is, and knowsįamily and friends, and is able to perform rote tasks-driving a car, shopping,Įtc. For anywhere between four and twenty-four hours, a person Transient global amnesia is a fortunately fleeting and probably benign syndrome TGA is more prevalent than we realize, so allow me to define it briefly. Way (or as my husband quips, maybe I’m the “typhoid Mary” re-incarnated as “TGA Out, on the “long tail.” Statistics don’t really disallow my experience, but Iĭo find it peculiar that this rare neurological syndrome would cluster in this To occur to in 0.004 percent of the population. What do they all have in common? TheyĪll have been diagnosed with transient global amnesia (TGA), which is supposed
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