Failure of recent memory, although events from the past are recalled, with confabulation; associated with vitamin B1 deficiency, especially in alcoholics.
Characterized by disorientation, failure of memory, and substituting imagined episodes for the loss of memory. It results from a combination of excessive alcohol intake and a deficiency of niacin. Symptoms of neuropathy associated with include impairment of reflexes, loss of sensation of pain, progressive muscular weakness, and difficulty in walking was first described and named in 1887 by S. S. Korsakoff.
A condition marked by extreme confusion, mental impairment, memory loss, and symptoms of nerve damage. Also known as alcohol-induced persisting amnesic disorder, Korsakoff psychosis usually is caused by alcoholism but may also be a result of a brain tumor, a head injury, starvation, or a minor stroke. The loss of memory and intellect cannot usually be reversed.
A mental illness marked by extreme confusion, mental impairment, memory loss, and symptoms of nerve damage. Also known as alcohol induced persisting amnesic disorder, Korsakoff psychosis usually is caused from alcoholism but may also be a result of a brain tumor, a head injury, starvation, or a minor stroke. The person cannot remember recent events and invents plausible fictions to account for the gaps in memory, an activity called confabulation. In its early stages, Korsakoff psychosis caused by alcoholism can be slowed by abstinence from alcohol and administration of vitamin B1 (thiamin). The loss of memory and intellect cannot usually be reversed.