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The course of alcohol amnestic disorder: a three‐year follow‐up study of clinical signs and social disabilities

open access: closedActa Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1992
Forty‐four patients with alcohol amnestic disorder were prospectively studied from 1987 to 1990. The cognitive impairment, social disability and mental symptoms of patients under different conditions were compared. Thirty‐three patients (75%) had no symptoms of Wernicke's disease nor a medical history to suggest its existence.
B A, Blansjaar   +2 more
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Urinary catecholamine metabolites and effects of clonidine in patients with alcohol amnestic disorder

open access: closedClinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 1983
Seven normotensive patients with alcohol amnestic disorder were treated with 2 micrograms/kg clonidine (C) three times daily for 1 wk. Four patients received 12 micrograms/kg/day during the subsequent week; three developed hypotensive symptoms at this dose and remained on 6 micrograms/kg/day. During a predrug placebo period and after 60 hr on each dose
P R, Martin   +3 more
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Pituitary-adrenal responses to oCRH and central neuropeptide levels in alcohol amnestic disorder

open access: closedBiological Psychiatry, 1991
In order to explore HPA axis organization and its relationship to central neuropeptide concentration in alcohol anamnestic disorder, we measured the plasma ACTH and cortisol response to oCRH administration and the CSF concentration of CRH and ACTH in a group of abstinent alcoholics with AAD and compred them with a group of carefully screened ...
B, Adinoff   +5 more
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Executive dysfunction in Korsakoff's syndrome: Time to revise the DSM criteria for alcohol-induced persisting amnestic disorder?

open access: closedInternational Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2009
Objective. This study examines the profile of executive dysfunction in Korsakoff's syndrome. There is accumulating evidence of executive deficits in Korsakoff patients that may greatly affect activities of daily living. However, the DSM-IV criteria for "alcohol-induced persisting amnestic disorder" do not take this into account.
van Oort, R.   +3 more
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