Talk:Korsakoff's syndrome

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[edit] Plain English

Could somebody tell us all, in plain English, what happens when a person has this syndrome? JackofOz 01:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

If I wasn't atheist, I'd definitely be saying "Amen to that!". Perhaps the answer to the question is lost in those big words, but I've read it a few times and I'm pretty sure it isn't.

taken from anterograde amnesia --- a syndrome...which causes irreversible anterograde amnesia. I hope that is helpful. -User:Damien Vryce

We need a section entitled 'symptoms'. There must be more to this than 'amnesia caused by lack of Vitamin B and too much booze' Reading up on it more, this syndrome apparantly involves difficulties encoding long term memories which forces the sufferer to fill in memory gaps with sensory cues. (See the above link and the page for House episode 10, 'histories') 134.7.77.147 11:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Can we have that reference to House and the link again? Someone took it off, but it would help the article's pace if there were a trivia section and say, a notable sufferers section. Julia Rossi 03:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bush and Korsakoff

George W Bush has been suggested to be a victim of this alcoholism disorder [1].

[edit] plainer English

How chancy is that - a edit conflict. I relinquished my edit until I see what else is happening. As a journo type I can demystify the text and put it into encyclopedic (rather than medical textbook) language, so if that's okay & no-one objects, I can do that. The other thing is that when you start to simplify it (without losing the nitty gritty, natch) there's a lot of repetitive information in the intro that can be grouped under Causes, say. Another thing is that apart from the Wernicke encephalopathy stuff being closely related to Korsakoff's, any more about Wernicke's could be left to that main article. Does anyone want me to demystify other tech-heavy articles? Not maths though. That's another language. and PS, one of the probs with having so many rarified links, when you go there, you have to follow a number of them to find out what's going on which can be frustrating for 'street level' people so to speak Julia Rossi 03:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
PPS - If it's your baby and you want to do the honours, the link at the top of this page, make it more accessible, is very good. Julia Rossi 05:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)