MCQ Psychiatry Answer 40

The Correct Answer is E

Korsakoff’s is typified by associated short term memory loss and confabulation (inventing recent events).

The Korsakoff’s component or Korsakoff Syndrome comprises a disorder of cognitive function in which memory is deranged out of all proportion to the other components of mentation and behavior. The symptoms include: retrograde amnesia, anterograde amnesia, lack of initiative and spontaneity, relatively intact immediate memory. Confabulation is an interesting finding when present but is only variably present.

To identify Korsakoff’s Syndrome the patient must be alert, attentive, responsive and capable of understanding the written and spoken word, capable of making appropriate deductions from given premises and capable of solving problems that can be concluded within his/her forward memory span.

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