Accelerated long-term forgetting can become apparent within 3-8 hours of wakefulness in patients with transient epileptic amnesia.

OBJECTIVE: Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) is typically defined as a memory disorder in which information that is learned and retained normally over standard intervals (∼30 min) is forgotten at an abnormally rapid rate thereafter. ALF has been reported, in particular, among patients with tran...

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Main Authors: Hoefeijzers, S, Dewar, M, Della Sala, S, Butler, C, Zeman, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2015