The “Amnestic” or “Korsakow's” Syndrome, with Alcoholic Ætiology; An Analysis of Thirty Cases

1915 ◽  
Vol 61 (254) ◽  
pp. 424-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Moll
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Head Trauma ◽  
Principal Factor ◽  
Mental Picture

Charcot was the first to notice the occurrence of amnesia in some of his patients suffering from alcohol-neuritis. Korsakow studied this peculiar kind of amnesia more elaborately. He regarded this condition as a disease sui generis, which could arise also from other causes besides abuse of alcohol, and used the name “polyneuritic psychosis.” It was later recognised that the same mental picture could exist without accompanying neuritis. Jolly proposed the name “amnestic” or “Korsakow's” syndrome, regarding it as a modus of reaction of the nervous system to various harmful agents, viz., head-trauma, senium, infections, poisons—alcohol being the most frequent cause of this reaction. Most later writers agree with this view. I shall deal in this paper with the cases of thirty patients, who, at some time during their illness, presented this syndrome; I have not included any cases in which alcohol could not be regarded as the principal factor.

scholarly journals Comparative study on infection of the central nervous system in patients with head trauma and spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage

Critical Care ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. P13 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Vartzeli ◽  
A Yiambides ◽  
K Daskalakis ◽  
M Moukas ◽  
K Schulpis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Head Trauma ◽  
Cerebral Hemorrhage ◽  
The Central Nervous System

scholarly journals Ego sentio, ergō sum!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emir Ashursky
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Infinite Number ◽  
Correct Answer ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Subjective Reality ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Mental Picture ◽  
Spatiotemporal Parameters ◽  
Mind's Eye ◽  
The Universe

The article offered to your attention is, in substance, a series of conceptually connected excerpts from authorial treatise on the psychological background of pre-cognitive brain activism and some little-known hidden features of the functioning of the higher nervous system. Well and besides, a couple of chapters are devoted here to the innate physiological asymmetry of the hemispheres, and also to the denial of the relevance of true free will to humans. But in general, by and large, in his scientific views the author tries to adhere to the idea of the subjective reality of emotions and the relative illusory nature of sensations. In its spirit, this position is most likely close to Lenin’s than to the earlier - the German classical one (the founder is H. von Helmholtz). The latter, we recall, exactly one and a half centuries ago, developed own theory of perception, whereby subjective images do not resemble the objective qualities of perceived things, but are just their abstract signs (characters). That is, any momentary perception was determined, according to Helmholtz, by the "habitual means" already formed in a given individual, due to which the constancy of the visible world is preserved. While in this article the link between an object and a corresponding mental picture - vice versa - is rather considered as a relation of homomorphism between two non-equinumerous sets. However, to say that such homomorphic images of the same object can, in principle, exist an infinite number - this, perhaps, would be the easiest here. That’s why the author is willy-nilly forced sometimes to turn in the mind's eye to the hierarchical evolution of natural systems (starting from the primary monads) in the context of the progressive development of their psyche. And as far as the actuality around us is concerned, then final correct answer about the sought-for type of the mapping would, obviously, first of all depend here on the spatiotemporal parameters of the Universe and the comprehensive set of quantum characteristics of 5 (at least) stable elementary particles that have lied at the origins of being.

scholarly journals Arcanobacterium haemolyticum Central Nervous System Abscess and Bacteremia Following Head Trauma

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. e9-e11
Author(s):  
Nicolás Cortés-Penfield ◽  
Anjali Kohli ◽  
Jill Weatherhead ◽  
Hana El Sahly
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Head Trauma ◽  
Arcanobacterium Haemolyticum

Pediatric Central Neurologic Trauma: Issues for Special Patients

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Leslie B. Altimier
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Head Trauma ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Pediatric Head Trauma ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Trauma Deaths

Head trauma in the pediatric population older than 1 year occurs in approximately 100,00 children per year, resulting in 250,000 to 500,000 hospitalizations annually. Head trauma accounts for 80% of all trauma deaths. The pathophysiology and management of severe pediatric head trauma is discussed. Traumatic injury to the central nervous system, its sequelae, and approaches to maximize cerebral resuscitation and stabilization are reviewed

Pulmonary Effects of Head Trauma

Neurosurgery ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 729-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Baigelman ◽  
James C. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Head Trauma ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Risk Of Aspiration ◽  
The Brain ◽  
The Continuum

Abstract Knowledge of the interrelation of the central nervous system-respiratory axis is crucial to the management of patients with head injuries with or without concomitant pulmonary-thoracic problems. Damage to the central nervous system (CNS) can result in unexplained hypoxemia, noncardiac pulmonary edema, altered patterns of respiration, and an increased risk of aspiration. The damaged thorax and lung can contribute to brain ischemia and rises in intracranial pressure. The treatment of one end of the CNS-respiratory axis is not without effect on the other end of the continuum. Corticosteroids, diuretics, mannitol. iatrogenic hyperventilation, barbiturates, and vasopressors are used in the management of patients with head trauma, but may have an impact on oxygenation and ventilation. When positive end expiratory pressure is used in the management of a pulmonary process, it should be optimized and used with caution while monitoring for its effect on intrac. ial pressure. Pulmonary toilet, while remaining a necessity, must be performed in a manner so as to minimize potential negative effects on the brain. Hyperoxia and hypothermia should be avoided. Mechanical ventilation should be used as dictated by the desired PaCO2 and not as a mandatory adjunct to endotracheal intubation.

Neurotropic enteroviruses co-opt “fair-weather-friend” commensal gut microbiota to drive host infection and central nervous system disturbances

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Gut Bacteria ◽  
Infection Cycle ◽  
Fair Weather ◽  
Host Health ◽  
Microbe Interactions ◽  
Animal Hosts ◽  
Host Infection ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Conditions

Abstract Some neurotropic enteroviruses hijack Trojan horse/raft commensal gut bacteria to render devastating biomimicking cryptic attacks on human/animal hosts. Such virus-microbe interactions manipulate hosts’ gut-brain axes with accompanying infection-cycle-optimizing central nervous system (CNS) disturbances, including severe neurodevelopmental, neuromotor, and neuropsychiatric conditions. Co-opted bacteria thus indirectly influence host health, development, behavior, and mind as possible “fair-weather-friend” symbionts, switching from commensal to context-dependent pathogen-like strategies benefiting gut-bacteria fitness.

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