Beitrag zur Symptomatologie und Pathophysiologie der tonischen Anfälle vom Typus der „Tetanus-like-seizures“ Jacksons

Kral, Adalbert

doi:10.1007/bf01813813

Archiv f. Psychiatrie

1934

DOI: 10.1007/bf01813813

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Beitrag zur Symptomatologie und Pathophysiologie der tonischen Anfälle vom Typus der „Tetanus-like-seizures“ Jacksons

Adalbert Kral

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“…Then a confusional state develops of variable duration which in some cases lasts several weeks, in others only a few days. Eventually the patient slips into coma which is terminated by death (7).…”

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Amnesia and the Amnestic Syndrome

1959

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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A close relationship seems to exist both clinically and psychopathologically between impairment of consciousness and its consequence in memory function-circumscribed amnesia-and the amnestic or Korsakow syndrome. In many cases an amnestic syndrome develops out of conditions of loss or impairment of consciousness or it initiates a clinical course which leads to impairment or loss of consciousness and eventually even to death. Although in such cases the amnestic syndrome is usually of short duration, numerically they seem to be more frequent than the chronic symptomatologically unchanging cases which one sees in alcoholics and seniles. Psychopathologically amnesia represents an unselective loss of memory for a limited period of time, due to lack or impairment of perceptual awareness. The amnestic syndrome on the other hand represents a selective type of memory dysfunction whereby recent personal memories cannot be recalled. It seems to be due to impairment of an integrative function other than perceptual awareness namely awareness of the personal meaning of events which is necessary for the registration of events as personal experiences available for future recall. Intact perceptual awareness is an essential pre-requisite for awareness of personal meaning but the latter is also dependent on the emotional charge of the situation. Consequently lesions and processes involving those structures of the brain functionally responsible for perceptual awareness and/or for emotional functions may be expected to lead to an amnestic syndrome. This is born out by neuropathological findings which demonstrate pathological changes in the hypothalamus in cases with impairment of consciousness and in the mammillary bodies with Korsakow's syndrome. The mammillary bodies form part of the activating system responsible for conscious perceptual awareness as well as of Papez' harmonious mechanism of the emotions.

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Neue Probleme zur Humoralpathologie des Krampfanfalles

Kroll

1936

Archiv f. Psychiatrie

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Beitrag zur Symptomatologie und Pathophysiologie der tonischen Anfälle vom Typus der „Tetanus-like-seizures“ Jacksons

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Amnesia and the Amnestic Syndrome

Amnesia and the Amnestic Syndrome

Neue Probleme zur Humoralpathologie des Krampfanfalles

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