TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional arousal and phobia in transient global amnesia
AU - Inzitari, Domenico
AU - Pantoni, Leonardo
AU - Lamassa, Maria
AU - Pallanti, Stefano
AU - Pracucci, Giovanni
AU - Marini, Paolo
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Objective: To evaluate the role of emotionally stressful or phobogenic events and phobic personality traits in transient global amnesia (TGA). Design: Case-control study. Setting: Tertiary care center. Patients: Fifty- one case patients with TGA (mean±SD age, 62.7±6.7 years) compared with 51 control patients with transient ischemic attacks (mean±SD age, 63.8±6.7 years). Main Outcome Measures: Precipitant factors, life events, and phobic attitudes. Results: Of the 25 TGA attacks that were triggered by a precipitant, 41 were possibly related to emotionally stressful or phobogenic situations. On a scale that measured phobic attitudes, the case patients with TGA scored significantly higher than the control patients with transient ischemic attacks (mean±SD total score, 15.21±11.0 vs 4.41±5.2; P<.001 by corrected analysis of variance for age, sex, and education). The amount of stressful life events in the year that preceded the attack did not differ between the case patients with TGA and the control patients with transient ischemic attacks. Conclusion: The results support the hypothesis that emotional arousal and phobia are involved in TGA.
AB - Objective: To evaluate the role of emotionally stressful or phobogenic events and phobic personality traits in transient global amnesia (TGA). Design: Case-control study. Setting: Tertiary care center. Patients: Fifty- one case patients with TGA (mean±SD age, 62.7±6.7 years) compared with 51 control patients with transient ischemic attacks (mean±SD age, 63.8±6.7 years). Main Outcome Measures: Precipitant factors, life events, and phobic attitudes. Results: Of the 25 TGA attacks that were triggered by a precipitant, 41 were possibly related to emotionally stressful or phobogenic situations. On a scale that measured phobic attitudes, the case patients with TGA scored significantly higher than the control patients with transient ischemic attacks (mean±SD total score, 15.21±11.0 vs 4.41±5.2; P<.001 by corrected analysis of variance for age, sex, and education). The amount of stressful life events in the year that preceded the attack did not differ between the case patients with TGA and the control patients with transient ischemic attacks. Conclusion: The results support the hypothesis that emotional arousal and phobia are involved in TGA.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0030740723
U2 - 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550190056015
DO - 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550190056015
M3 - Article
C2 - 9236576
AN - SCOPUS:0030740723
SN - 0003-9942
VL - 54
SP - 866
EP - 873
JO - Archives of Neurology
JF - Archives of Neurology
IS - 7
ER -