A disease associated with chronic alcohol dependence (alcoholism) and resulting from a deficiency of vitamin B1. Patients sustain damage to part of the thalamus and cerebellum and have anterograde and retrograde amnesia, with an inability to retain new information. Other symptoms include inflammation of nerves, muttering delirium, insomnia, Illusions, and hallucinations. In alcohol amnestic disorder, unlike dementia, other intellectual functions may be preserved.
A condition, caused usually by chronic alcoholism or disorders in which there is a deficiency of vitamin B, in which a person’s memory fails and he or she invents things which have not happened and is confused [Described 1887. After Sergei Sergeyevich Korsakoff (1854-1900), Russian psychiatrist.]
A form of mental disturbance occurring in chronic alcoholism and other toxic states, such as uraemia, lead poisoning and cerebral syphilis. Its special features are talkativeness, with delusions in regard to time and place the patient, although clear in other matters, imagining that he or she has recently made journeys.