Severe global amnesia presenting as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome but resulting from atypical lesions

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 421-425

  Welch, L W ^a   Nimmerrichter, A ^a   Kessler, R ^a   King, D ^a   Hoehn, R ^a   Margolin, R ^a   Martin, P R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; GLUCOSE; THIAMINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0029916791     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700034814     Document Type: Article

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