Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome

Preface

Acknowledgments


1 Clinical Symptoms, Neuropathology, and Etiology

Neuropathology

Etiology


2 The Original Memory Model

Functional Differences among Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory, and Sensory Memory

Short-Term-Long-Term-Memory Paradigms Frequently Used in Amnesia Research


3 Long-Term Memory

Paired-Associate Learning

Serial Learning

Remote Memory

Semantic Memory

Motor Memory


4 Short-Term Memory

Recency in Serial Learning

Distractor Task Recall

Rate of Retrieval from Short-Term Memory

Sensory Memory

Short-Term Motor Memory


5 Encoding Deficits


6 Depth of Encoding and Visuoperceptive Deficits

Analyses of the Alcoholic Korsakoff Patient's Deficits on the Digit-Symbol Test

Limited Encoding and the Alcoholic Korsakoff Patient's Deficits in Face Perception


7 Alternative Theories of Amnesia

Consolidation

Retrieval-Interference Theory

Contextual Theory

Other Theoretical Approaches

Theoretical Conclusions


8 Are All Amnesics Alike

Memory Disorders of Postencephalitic Patients

Individual Case Studies

Comparisons of Alcoholic Korsakoff and Dementing Patients


9 Sensory Capacities


10 Memory and Cognitive Disorders of Chronic Alcoholics

References

Subject Index