Katie Couric couldn't remember the year or the president during frightening brain episode

Journalist Katie Couric is sharing a scary aesculapian occurrence that she experienced connected June 27.

In a station connected Substack titled "The Day I’ll Never Remember," she elaborate a abrupt occurrence that near her incapable to callback the existent month, twelvemonth and president.

"I thought it was 2024. And I believed Joe Biden was president," she wrote.

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The lawsuit occurred portion Couric was attending the Aspen Ideas Festival successful Colorado, during which she participated successful 2 nationalist panels — 1 connected AI and 1 connected journalism — some of which she cannot retrieve astatine all.

"I person nary thought what we talked about, oregon of what occurred erstwhile the panels ended," she said.

Journalist Katie Couric is sharing a scary aesculapian occurrence that she experienced connected June 27. (Getty Images)

John Molner — Couric’s husband, who was successful attendance astatine the festival and the 2 panels — besides shared his account.

After the event, idiosyncratic told Molner that Katie wasn’t feeling well. When helium reached her, an EMT and a doc were tending to her. "I could archer thing was off," helium wrote. "It could person been altitude sickness, but Katie was decidedly not each there."

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At the hospital, erstwhile Couric struggled to callback the year, the president and her grandchildren’s names, doctors began checking for a stroke.

An MRI revealed nary signs of stroke, which was a relief, but "Katie’s ‘fog’ became a batch much apparent," Molner wrote.

John Molner — Couric’s husband, who was successful attendance astatine the festival and the 2 panels — besides shared his account. (Getty Images)

"She repeatedly asked maine the aforesaid questions: ‘What was I doing earlier we got to the hospital?’ ‘Why americium I astatine the hospital?’"

Couric was yet diagnosed with transient planetary amnesia, a sudden, impermanent occurrence of representation nonaccomplishment that prevents a idiosyncratic from forming caller memories and whitethorn besides erase immoderate caller memories, according to Mayo Clinic.

"The origin seems to beryllium arsenic mysterious arsenic the encephalon itself."

It is not caused by a stroke, seizure oregon caput injury, and it usually resolves wholly wrong 24 hours.

"[It’s] conscionable a precise weird neural occurrence that’s beauteous uncommon and, astatine slightest successful astir cases, is simply a ‘one and done’ experience," Molner said.

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Couric said she yet began feeling "like herself" again astir 9 p.m., and went to slumber astatine 2 a.m.

As TGA leaves a "permanent spread successful memory" for the duration of the occurrence and for hours beforehand, Couric said that from astir noon connected that time until astatine slightest 7 p.m. volition stay a "big, achromatic hole."

As TGA leaves a "permanent spread successful memory" for the duration of the occurrence and for hours beforehand, Couric said that from astir noon connected that time until astatine slightest 7 p.m. volition stay a "big, achromatic hole." (Getty Images)

Data shows that astir 3 to 8 radical per 100,000 volition person an occurrence of transient planetary amnesia, with radical 50 years of property and older astatine higher risk.

The circumstantial origin of TGA is not known, but immoderate experts judge it stems from a "temporary dysfunction successful the brain’s hippocampus — the country liable for creating caller memories," Couric shared.

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"Doctors judge this is driven by little interruptions successful humor oregon oxygen flow, oregon microscopic spasm successful the humor vessels."

Episodes could perchance beryllium triggered by aggravated carnal exertion, affectional distress, utmost somesthesia changes oregon migraines, experts say.

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Approximately 15% of patients volition person a recurrence 10 years later.

"Why did this hap to me? Was the altitude an issue? Was I dehydrated? Tired? Stressed? The lit doesn’t look to bespeak that these are contributing factors, but the origin seems to beryllium arsenic mysterious arsenic the encephalon itself," Couric wrote.

Anyone who experiences abrupt representation loss, confusion, trouble speaking, weakness, numbness, imaginativeness changes, terrible headache oregon different stroke-like symptoms should question contiguous aesculapian attraction oregon telephone 911, doctors advise. (iStock)

"All I cognize is that those hours volition beryllium everlastingly lost. Someone described it arsenic my encephalon failing to deed the ‘record button.’"

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"While this was a freaky occurrence, it could person been overmuch much serious. So ultimately, I’m relieved — adjacent though respective hours of a Saturday successful June volition ever beryllium missing for me."

Anyone who experiences abrupt representation loss, confusion, trouble speaking, weakness, numbness, imaginativeness changes, terrible headache oregon different stroke-like symptoms should question contiguous aesculapian attraction oregon telephone 911, doctors advise.