Amnestic syndrome
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Organic amnestic syndromes[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Dementia, delirium, depressive pseudodemence
- It is necessary to find out the cause, there is no qualitative disorder of consciousness!
Treatment[edit | edit source]
- Causal treatment, nootropics, antioxidants.
Links[edit | edit source]
Related articles[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- BENEŠ, Jiří. Study materials [online]. [feeling. 2009]. < http://jirben.wz.cz >.
