The Writer's Forensics Blog: Transient Global Amnesia

Do you need some temporary but believable amnesia for your fiction? In this post, the Writer's Forensics Blog hosts Dr. Strobl on the topic of Transient Global Amnesia.

Transient Global Amnesia is a condition of full amnesia that leaves the patient often confused and unable to perform certain tasks while the brain does not make any memories.

The post describes two cases Dr. Strobl encountered and adds;

'Transient Global Amnesia or TGA is a condition I diagnose in patients 2-4 times per year. There are many causes, but often none is found. Almost all patients have a full recovery, but in a few, the condition will recur. (…) [C]auses of TGA may include a large number of factors including migraines and various chemical abnormalities, as well as stroke-like problems. There are other patients who simply have psychiatric problems or feign the condition after perpetrating certain criminal acts or hoping to get an edge in legal cases.'

Definitely a condition worth investigating.

 

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Victoria is a scientist by day--reluctant writer by night, Clarion Write-a-Thon survivor, slush reader for Dark Fiction Magazine, and founder and editor of the 'of Altered States' anthology series.

Victoria has short fiction published in the upcoming City of Hell Chronicles and 100 Horrors anthologies. She's also writing her first novel; a tale of magical realism.

 

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