Korsakoff's syndrome

A number of factors may increase a person's risk to develop Korsakoff's syndrome.

It was once assumed that anyone suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome would eventually need full time care.

He had to move to a rest home, suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome caused by heavy alcohol use.

That is, patients could be led to believe certain things that haven't happened, just like people without Korsakoff's syndrome.

Near the end of the episode, he diagnoses their patient with Korsakoff's syndrome.

This type of confabulation is commonly seen in Korsakoff's syndrome.

He looked up Korsakoff's syndrome, and studied the descriptions of the associated memory defects.

After the presentation of this report the term "Korsakoff's Syndrome" was coined.

If treated quickly it may be possible to prevent the development of Korsakoff's syndrome with thiamine treatments.

People who have Korsakoff's syndrome have deficits in the processing of contextual information.

Mercury poisoning can also lead to Korsakoff's syndrome.

Damage to the medial dorsal nucleus have been associated with Korsakoff's syndrome.

In Korsakoff's syndrome there is dramatic memory impairment with relative preservation of other cognitive functions.

There are six major symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome:

About three quarters of all surviving Wernicke's patients will develop Korsakoff's syndrome.

Structural lesions of the central nervous system, though rare, can also contribute to symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome.

Korsakoff's syndrome is often characterized by confabulation, disorientation, and profound amnesia.

Subsequently, in 1868, he published the characteristic mental symptoms on alcoholic paraplegia (later to be named Korsakoff's syndrome).

Mercury poisoning - Absorption of mercury through the skin can cause Korsakoff's syndrome.

Korsakoff's syndrome is a mental disorder characterized by disproportionate memory loss in relation to other mental aspects.

After years of alcohol abuse, Blackman now suffers from Korsakoff's syndrome, a brain disorder affecting memory.

As described, Korsakoff 's syndrome usually follows or accompanies Wernicke's encephalopathy.

The most effective method of preventing Korsakoff's syndrome is to avoid B vitamin/thiamine deficiency.

Korsakoff's syndrome stems from damage to the mammillary body, the mammillothalamic fasciculus or the thalamus.

This refers to retention of non-verbal and implicit memory in sufferers of Korsakoff's syndrome.