Many patients with Amnesia, Korsakoff’s syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease have various memory defects. Many patients with these complications and disease have trouble with putting their memory into words (declarative memory). While others have trouble remembering how do certain things, like physical movements (procedural memory). The patients with damage to the hippocampus region. Suffer from explicit and implicit memory functions. These patients do not that they are using memory or not. Memory is a very important contribution to life, “life wi

Korsakoff’s syndrome is a sever deficiency vitamin B. This syndrome particularly exclusive to alcoholics. In principle “The brain needs thiamine (vitamin B) in order to metabolize glucose” (Kalat, p. 354). People with Korsakoff’s syndrome suffer in some of the same aspects of people with a damaged hippocampus, with retrograde and anterograde amnesia. One of the key symptoms is confabulation. These patients will make up a story and except it as true.

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