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[Mental akinesia and memory disorders following carbon monoxide poisoning]
M C De Poorter1, F Pasquier, H Petit
1Clinique Neurologique, Hôpital B, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Lille.
Acta Neurologica Belgica
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 32-year old woman presented with serious memory impairment and a mental syndrome named loss of psychic auto-activation or psychic akinesia following carbon monoxide poisoning. The MRI findings were bilateral pallidal lesions probably associated with thalamic lesions. The evolution was favourable.