title: Transient global amnesia, epilepsy, and migraine: diagnostic comparisons and distinctions.
abstract: Transient global amnesia, epilepsy, and migraine are three common neurologic disorders likely to be encountered by military physicians. These three entities share many clinical, electroencephalographic, and pathophysiologic characteristics. We report a patient who exemplifies the indistinct boundaries among these conditions and whose response to treatment supports the use of anticonvulsants for selected patients who have recalcitrant migraine.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maccario
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000647:Amnesia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*