A PURE REVERSIBLE AMNESIC SYNDROME FOLLOWING TUBERCULOUS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS

The authors report the case of a 33-year-old right-handed man who deve loped a pure classical amnesic syndrome during the course of a probabl e tuberculous meningitis. This amnesic syndrome occurred 3 months afte r the onset of the illness, after the patient had stopped the treatmen t and it regressed completely after the antituberculous treatment had been recommenced. The neuroradiological investigations suggested that both the mamillary bodies and the medial temporal lobe regions were in volved in this amnesic syndrome.