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[Function imaging of the hippocampus in Korsakoff's syndrome]
B Lechevalier1, A M Aupée, V de la Sayette
1L'Académie nationale de médecine, Université de Caen (Service de Neurologie du CHU) et Unité 320 de l'INSERM.
Bulletin De L'Academie Nationale De Medecine
|March 23, 2001
Abstract:
A case of alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome is reported in a 47 year-old-man. Neuropsychological examination revealed an important both anterograd and retrograd amnesia but procedural and short-term memory were not affected nor was intellectual capacity. Cerebral IRM was normal. Pet scan demonstrated a previously unsuspected fact: the diminution of glucose metabolism in the two hippocampus and in the mamillary bodies.