[Function imaging of the hippocampus in Korsakoff's syndrome].
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.
L'Académie nationale de médecine, Université de Caen (Service de Neurologie du CHU) et Unité 320 de l'INSERM.
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Eustache
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Baron
D006624:Hippocampus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D020915:Korsakoff Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed