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.

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