Psychic disorders in the Korsakof Syndrome of two young alcoholic patients

It is a matter of a comparison between two relatively young patients affect ed by a Korsakoff's syndrome after about ten years of alcoholic abuse. For one of them, besides the disorders of alcoholic origin, disorders due to ce rebral circulatory problems are found, Besides the visualisation of stroke by scanner and epileptic symptoms which decrease under medical treatment, t he complementary tests do not reveal any thing else. The main thing in thes e two cases is the preservation of the immediate memory, a difficulty for l earning and a unquestionable tendency for tiredness, This comparison is interesting because these two patients differ by the det ails of their hospital follow-up. But in the two cases, numerous and variou s cognitive stimulations improve the mnesic achievements.