Possible causes of Memory loss
27 conditions can cause this symptom. Most common are listed first.
- Alcoholism Common
- Alzheimer's disease Common
- Carbon monoxide poisoning Common Urgent Pediatric
- Concussion (head injury) Common Pediatric
- Dementia (impaired cognitive function) Common
- Depression (excessive sadness) Common Urgent Pediatric
- Drug overuse Common Urgent Pediatric
- Marijuana abuse Common Pediatric
- Medication reaction Common Urgent Pediatric
- Parkinson's disease Common
- Seizure (epilepsy) Common Urgent Pediatric
- Transient global amnesia Common
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA, pre stroke) Common Urgent
- Brain tumor (cancer) Urgent
- Cerebral vascular accident (stroke) Urgent
- Encephalitis (brain infection) Urgent
- HIV AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Urgent
- Lyme disease Urgent
- Meningitis (brain spine infection) Urgent
- Myxedema coma (severe low thyroid) Urgent
- Pseudotumor cerebri (elevated brain pressure) Urgent
- Schizophrenia (psychiatric disease) Urgent
- Sepsis (severe infection) Urgent
- Subdural hematoma (bleeding on brain) Urgent
- Syphilis (treponema pallidum) Urgent
- West Nile virus infection Urgent
- Wilsons disease