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Alcohol Amnestic Disorder

Known as: Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychoses 
A mental disorder associated with chronic ethanol abuse (ALCOHOLISM) and nutritional deficiencies characterized by short term memory loss… (More)
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Alcohol Withdrawal HallucinosisAlcohol-Related DisordersAlcoholic Intoxication, ChronicAmnestic Disorder
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Alcohol induced encephalopathyAlcohol-Induced Wernicke-Korsakoff's Syndrome
Alcoholic NeuropathyAlcoholic blackoutAlcoholic polyneuritic psychosisAlcoholics
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2003
2003
Hippocampal volume deficits in alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome.
OBJECTIVE To examine whether the amnesic syndrome of alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) originates from pathology of the… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Intact verbal and nonverbal short-term memory following damage to the human hippocampus.
Short-term memory was assessed in two groups of amnesic patients. Six patients had confirmed or suspected damage to the… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Frontal lobe function in Korsakoff and non-Korsakoff alcoholics: planning and spatial working memory.
Groups of Korsakoff (KS) and non-Korsakoff alcoholics (ALC) and a group of normal volunteers, matched for age and verbal IQ, were… (More)
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
Magnetic resonance imaging of the hippocampal formation and mammillary nuclei distinguish medial temporal lobe and diencephalic amnesia.
Studies of circumscribed amnesia have been a useful source of information about the organization of human memory functions. In an… (More)
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1989
1989
The neurology of memory: quantitative assessment of retrograde amnesia in two groups of amnesic patients.
The phenomenon of retrograde amnesia has important implications for understanding normal memory as well as its neural… (More)
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1988
1988
Lexical and semantic priming deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Two experiments utilizing priming procedures examined the status of semantic memory in demented and amnesic patients. In the… (More)
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1987
1987
Memory dysfunction and word priming in dementia and amnesia.
Memory performance of patients with the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease was compared with performance of patients with… (More)
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1986
Highly Cited
1986
Differential patterns of memory loss among patients with Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome.
Patients with Huntington's disease (HD), alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome (KS), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) were compared with… (More)
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1985
Highly Cited
1985
Do alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome patients acquire affective reactions?
In this study we report two experiments that investigate the acquisition of affective reactions. In Experiment 1, unfamiliar… (More)
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1984
1984
Dissociations between skill learning and verbal recognition in amnesia and dementia.
Patients with Huntington's disease (HD), patients with alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome, and normal control subjects were compared… (More)
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