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Korsakoff syndrome  

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  • Korsakoff's syndrome (Korsakoff, 1889) is a type of amnestic syndrome with diencephalic lesions. In addition to anterograde and retrograde amnesia, with preservation of the earliest memories, patients with Korsakoff's syndrome also exhibit with confabulations, false recognition of persons, spatio-temporal disorientation, anosognosia of memory disorders, disorders of executive functions. The most common etiology of Korsakoff's syndrome is chronic alcoholism leading to vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency.

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  • Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Arts, N., Walvoort, S., & Kessels, R. (2017). Korsakoff’s syndrome: a critical review. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Volume 13, 2875–2890. https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S130078

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Haj, M. E. (2021). Autobiographical memory in Korsakoff syndrome: A review. L’Encéphale, 47(4), 356-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.encep.2020.11.013

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Korsakoff, S. (1889). Étude médico-psychologique sur une forme des maladies de la mémoire. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger, 28, 501-530.

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

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  • Frank Arnould

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