[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.
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L'Académie nationale de médecine, Université de Caen (Service de Neurologie du CHU) et Unité 320 de l'INSERM.
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de la Sayette
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Eustache
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Baron
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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