Amnesia partial

Physiological effects of Rohypnol are similar to those experienced with other sedatives and anesthetics and include drowsiness, dizziness, lack of coordination, confusion, decreased blood pressure, respiratory depression, nausea, and vomiting. Increased dosages can result in blackouts that may include partial amnesia. 

Sufenta) amnesia change cause of concern for partial... 

Hallucinations are usually visual and may be vivid in content however, memory of the episodes may be incomplete or fragmentary. Differentiation of this group of seizures from schizophrenia is based on presence of clouding of consciousness and their brief and episodic nature, with partial amnesia for the episodes... 

This section describes the partial agonists and the nonbenzodiazepine drugs that act at the benzodiazepine receptor. What these drugs have in common is that their development has been driven by the search for effective anxiolytics that do not have the adverse effects of sedation, amnesia, ataxia, interaction with alcohol, or the problems of tolerance, dependency, and withdrawal seen with classic benzodiazepines. These problems have been addressed by the development of partial agonists, subtype-selective ligands, and other drugs, the cyclopyrrolones, which do not seem to cause these problems. 

Treatment of GAD can be undertaken using a number of pharmacological agents. Benzodiazepines have been found to be superior to placebo in several studies and all benzodiazepines appear to be equally effective. However, side effects include sedation, psvchomotor impairment, amnesia and tolerance (Chapter 1). Recent clinical data indicate that SSRIs and SNRIs are effective in the treatment of acute GAD symptoms. Venlafaxine, paroxetine and imipramine have been shown to be effective antianxiety medications in placebo-controlled studies. Case studies also indicate the usefulness of clomipramine, nefazodone, mirtazapine, fluoxetine and fluvoxamine in GAD. Buspirone, a 5-HTla receptor partial agonist, has been shown to be effective in several placebo-controlled, double-blind trials (Roy-Byme and Cowley, 2002). Buspirone has a later onset of action than both benzodiazepines and SSRIs but with the advantage of being non-addictive and non-sedating. 

Sleep-related eating disorder consists of partial arousal from sleep followed by rapid ingestion of food, commonly with at least partial amnesia for the episode on the next day this disorder has been reported, purportedly for the first time, in association with an atypical neuroleptic drug (132). 

Amnesia Loss of memory, either partial or total. 

Despite the reputation of scopolamine for causing amnesia. Hardy and Wakely (124) found that only 13 of 100 patients given subcutaneous injections of l osclne at about 6.3 Mg/kg and morphine at about 157.2 vg/kg had any amnesia of being shown a card Just before Induction of anesthesia. Only seven of these patients had complete amnesia of preoperative events. When atropine at about 9.4 ug/kg was substituted for scopolamine In the preanesthetlc mixture, only one of 100 patients had partial amnesia of belxig shown a card before Induction of anesthesia. 

The two main memory disorders are amnesia and aphasia. Amnesia is a partial or total loss of memory caused by emotional trauma, disease, or brain injury (usually due to head trauma, surgical accidents, or chronic alcohol abuse). Memory loss can occur for events just prior to the amnesia-causing incident (retrograde amnesia), or for events occurring after the incident (anterograde amnesia). In severe cases of anterograde amnesia, the person may be unable to form n memories, although recall of material learned before amnesia s onset is usually unaffected. Many cases of amnesia (even severe) are temporary, so that the person recovers his or her memory. 

Benzodiazepines cause a certain amount of amnesia. More than 2.5 mg of sublingual lorazepam can produce partial amnesia that lasts for more than 10 hours. Midazolam produces short-term but deep amnesia that makes the patient forget any pain he or she may have felt in the course of the treatment. 

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