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Korsakov
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2014
Abstract
Alcoholic polyneuritis with characteristic mental symptoms was described by Sergei Korsakov in 1887; Wernicke confirmed and extended his observations, and modern high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging techniques make it possible to relate the confabulatory amnesia with abnormally small mammillary nuclei.
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