Wernicke syndrome

Wernicke syndrome

Wernicke syndrome is an ambiguous term. It may refer to:

*Wernicke aphasia: the eponymous term for receptive or sensory aphasia.

*Wernicke encephalopathy: an acute neurological syndrome of ophthalmoparesis, ataxia, and encephalopathy brought on by thiamine deficiency.

*Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, also called Korsakoff psychosis: a subacute dementia syndrome, often following Wernicke encephalopathy, characterized clinically by confabulation and clinicopathologically correlated with degeneration of the mammillary bodies.

ee also

Karl Wernicke (1848-1905), the neurologist who described all of these syndromes.


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  • Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome — (also called wet brain, Korsakoff psychosis, alcoholic encephalopathy, Wernicke s disease, and encephalopathy alcoholic) [ [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000771.htm MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome ] …   Wikipedia

  • Wernicke–Korsakoff Syndrome —    Wernicke and Korsakoff are two very familiar eponyms that only recently have been joined. First: Korsakoff. There is a Korsakoff syndrome, also referred to as Korsakoff psychosis, that the Russian psychiatrist Sergei S. Korsakoff (1853–1900)… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • Syndrome de wernicke-korsakoff — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Korsakoff. Le Syndrome de Wernicke Korsakoff est une combinaison du Syndrome de Korsakoff, qui provoque la confusion, l aphonie (mutisme) et l affabulation, et l encéphalopathie de Wernicke (perte de la mémoire à …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Syndrome de Korsakov — Syndrome de Korsakoff Pour les articles homonymes, voir Korsakoff. Syndrome de Korsakoff CIM 10 : F10.6 Le syndrome de Korsakoff (ou psychose de Korsakoff) est une complication de l encéphalopathie de Wernicke, bien que chez certains patients la… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Syndrome de korsakoff — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Korsakoff. Syndrome de Korsakoff CIM 10 : F10.6 Le syndrome de Korsakoff (ou psychose de Korsakoff) est une complication de l encéphalopathie de Wernicke, bien que chez certains patients la maladie soit passée… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Wernicke's encephalopathy — Infobox Disease Name = Wernicke encephalopathy Caption = Thiamine DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|E|51|2|e|50 ICD9 = ICD9|265.1 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = emerg eMedicineTopic = 642 MeshID = Wernicke encephalopathy is a syndrome… …   Wikipedia

  • Syndrome de Wernicke-Korsakoff — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Korsakoff. Le Syndrome de Wernicke Korsakoff est une combinaison du syndrome de Korsakoff qui rassemble une atteinte de la mémoire antérograde (perte de la mémoire à court terme), une confusion, une aphonie… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

  • Wernicke-Enzephalopathie — Klassifikation nach ICD 10 E51.2 Wernicke Enzephalopathie …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Wernicke encephalopathy — a neurological disorder characterized by confusion, apathy, drowsiness, ataxia of gait, nystagmus, and ophthalmoplegia, now known to be due to thiamine deficiency, usually from chronic alcohol abuse. It is almost invariably accompanied by or… …   Medical dictionary

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