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Study expands understanding of alcoholic memory disorder

anorexia. The nutrient thiamine helps restore certain brain functions like recalling past events and storing new information.

Current treatment of Korsakoff's patients includes thiamine and other B-complex vitamins. If treated early enough, Korsakoff's patients may have at least partial recovery, according to Sullivan.

"It would be important for clinicians who diagnose and treat dementia disorders to consider Korsakoff's syndrome in their diagnoses," said Sullivan. "It is also important to inquire about alcohol consumption and diet, bearing in mind the potential of denial and inaccuracies in history such patients may provide."


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American Academy of Neurology
22-Dec-2003


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