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Wernicke's dementia
Also known as:
Wernicke’s syndrome I
Associated persons:
Carl Wernicke
Description:
Frequent condition of old age marked by defective memory, loss of sense of location, and disorientation with confabulation.
Bibliography:
- H. Nouët:
Presbyophrenia of Wernicke and psychoneurosis.
Alienist and Neurologist, St. Louis, 1913, 34: 141-155.
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