Rare complication of anterior communicating artery aneurysm coiling: Transient retrograde amnesia.

Amnesia is an unusual and rare complication following endovascular coiling of intracranial aneurysms. We present a case of anterior communicating artery (ACOM) aneurysm in which the patient developed retrograde amnesia following endovascular coiling of the aneurysm. On imaging there was infarct involving bilateral fornices.

Systematic review of lamotrigine augmentation of treatment resistant unipolar depression (TRD).

Objective: Our aim was to review all the evidence of lamotrigine's effectiveness in treatment resistant depression after at least one failed antidepressant trial.

Method: We used a systematic search strategy to identify studies that included adults aged 18-65 years with a diagnosis of unipolar depression who had not responded to at least a 4-week course of a recommended dose of an antidepressant.

Results: We found only one randomized, double blind study that has been published, showing its effectiveness for treatment-resistant depression.

Arson: a growing inferno.

In a series of 34 arsonists, our survey compares the changing trends in arson to an earlier study carried out ten years ago in the same region in the UK by Rix (1994). The survey is based on pre-trial court reports done by the second author only. Fire-setting offending was predominantly seen in the young male (18-32).