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THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM IN KORSAKOFF SYNDROME

WARREN F. GORMAN, ESTHER STEARNS, and S. BERNARD WORTISAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 107, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.1.20

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1. The electroencephalograms were examined of 21 patients with a history of severe alcoholism and a confabulatory amnestic psychosis, nystagmus, and peripheral neuropathy.

2. The electroencephalographic findings were not characteristic of this syndrome: 17 showed abnormal tracings and there were 4 normal records. Of the abnormal records 15 contained a predominance of moderately slow activity, and 9 of these 15 showed a lesser degree of fast activity. Two individuals presented focal abnormalities that corresponded well with clinical and pneumoencephalographic evidence for cerebral trauma.

3. There was no direct correlation between the degree of the electroencephalographic abnormality and the degree and duration of the psychosis, the nystagmus, or the neuropathy.

4. The four patients who had convulsions also had cranio-cerebral injuries.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 107 • Number 1 • July 1950

Pages: 20 - 24

PubMed: 15419330

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Published in print: July 1950

Published online: 1 April 2006

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WARREN F. GORMAN

The departments of psychiatry and neurology, New York University.

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ESTHER STEARNS

The departments of psychiatry and neurology, New York University.

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S. BERNARD WORTIS

The departments of psychiatry and neurology, New York University.

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THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM IN KORSAKOFF SYNDROME

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