A case of probable korsakoff's syndrome: A syndrome of frontal lobe and diencephalic structural pathogenesis and a comparison with medial temporal lobe dementias

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 15-19

  Spiegel, David R ^a   Jim, Kheng Jim ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnestic disorder; Diencephalic; Frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DONEPEZIL; FOLIC ACID; THIAMINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DIENCEPHALON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOLALIA; FALLING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960771069     PISSN: 21588333     EISSN: 21588341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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