Mayes, Andrew R; Meudell, Peter R; Mann, David and Pickering, Alan. 1988. Location of lesions in Korsakoff's syndrome: neuropsychological and neuropathological data on two patients. Cortex, 24(3), pp. 367-388. ISSN 0010-9452 [Article]

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Psychometric and neuropathological findings on two Korsakoff amnesics are described. Both patients showed anterograde and retrograde amnesia, poor performance on the Peterson short-term memory task, on the Wisconsin card sort test and on certain visuospatial tasks. Patient J.W. performed consistently worse on tests of anterograde, but not retrograde amnesia, whereas patient B.C. showed more perseverative difficulties and, unlike J.W., his measured intelligence seemed to have declined from its preinorbid level. Both patients showed marked neuronal loss from the medial mammillary bodies and a narrow band of gliosis in the medial thalamus, adjacent to the wall of the third ventricle, a region known as the paratenial nucleus. Only B.C. showed visible signs of cortical atrophy. Morphometric measures did, however, reveal reduced nucleolar volumes in layers III and V of the frontal cortex, with B.C. also showing more marked neuronal loss from these layers. B.C. also -showed neuronal loss from the CAI region of the hippocampus and reduced nucleolar volumes in the septum. Significantly, both patients had normal neuronal numbers and nucleolar volumes in the nucleus basalis of Meynert. J.W. only showed greater dysfunction than B.C. in one region: the locus caeruleus. This finding was related to his more severe amnesia.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(88)80001-7
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event September 1988 Published
Item ID:	8434
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2015 15:08
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2017 10:31
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/8434

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