Korsakoff
(ˈkɔəsəkɒf)
Also Korsakow, -ov.
The name of S. S. Korsakoff (1854–1900), Russian physician, used attrib. or in the possessive to denote a type of psychosis, namely a syndrome, often the result of chronic alcoholism, which is characterized by disorientation, memory loss for recent events, and consequent confabulation.
| 1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 546/1 Korsakoff's psychosis, delirium or insanity associated with polyneuritis. 1903 Jrnl. Mental Sci. XLIX. 673 (heading) Twelve cases of ‘Korsakow's disease’ in women. 1924 [see confabulation 2]. 1938 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) XXXIX. 483 We decided..to study the forces of organization in perception and memory in cases of the Korsakoff syndrome. 1941 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXI. 230 The object of this paper is to describe a variety of paramnesia recently observed in..Korsakow's psychosis. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXIII. 619 (heading) A case of craniopharyngioma presenting as Korsakov's syndrome. 1968 G. A. Talland Disorders of Memory & Learning iii. 63 A Korsakoff patient who, when asked to draw a woman..accurately reproduced the style..current ten years earlier. 1970 R. M. Suinn Fund. Behavior Path. xi. 288/1 The characteristic signs of Korsakoff's psychosis are disorientation of time and place, anterograde amnesia.., and a marked tendency to fabricate answers to fill in the past. |