Amnestic syndrome

Organic amnestic syndromes

 * They are characterized by a declarative memory disorder - memory of events and facts,
 * Both components or only one may be affected, procedural memory is not affected,
 * Amnesia - retrograde or anterograde, global or partial,
 * They are able to repeat anything, but there is no implantation - there is amnestic disorientation (there is no disorder of consciousness as in delirium),
 * Outages sometimes replace confabulations, they trust them, but they don't remember them,
 * Non-alcoholic Korsakov syndrome - amnestic syndrome with confabulations and amnestic disorientation, with emotional changes and insufficient insight,
 * Transient global amnesia - a sudden disorder, sometimes caused by a stressful experience, in the elderly, only the episodic component is violated.

Causes

 * Head injuries - contusion, bleeding (significant in thalamic bleeding), tumors, encephalitis, hypovitaminosis (B), alcohol,
 * Damage to the hippocampus, thalamus and hypothalamus, basal telencephala…,
 * The damage may be reversible.

Differential diagnostics

 * Dementia, delirium, depressive pseudodemence
 * It is necessary to find out the cause, there is no qualitative disorder of consciousness!

Treatment

 * Causal treatment, nootropics, antioxidants.

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