Abstract

A 62-year-old right-handed lady presented at initial consultation with an 18 months history of slowly progressive short-term memory problems and personality change. She denied having any problems herself, suggesting some lack of insight. However, the collateral history obtained from her daughter made it clear that she had problems with progressive worsening of her short-term memory in the past 18 months, severe enough to be of concern in the last year. She reported that she had a poor episodic memory for conversations and recent events. As an example, her daughter gave examples that the patient was frequently unable to remember previous conversations. Also, she mentioned that she was prone to forget the discussed topic in the middle of conversations.