Autobiogutobiographical amnesia and cognltive disorder resulgting from bilateral severe thalamic infarction Two cases

Objective To report two cases of patients with bilateral severe thalamic infarction.which showed autobiographical amnesia and cognitive disorders and to shed light on the mechanisms underlying thc retrograde amenesia. Method The two cases were studied clinically, CT and MRI were performed also, Language and neuropsychological tests were evaluated. Results Two patients with a chronic amnesia and cogntive disorders resulting from bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction showed a pattern of retrograde amnesia personally relevent autobiographical memory were prefoundly impaired .Whereas about the famous people and public events were relatively impaired. The patients almost had no thalamic aphasia.The events the one described showed spontaneously confabulated. Conclusion We think a probable explanation that the disorders at the thematic retrieval fiomwork ievel of memory and the information reconstruction due to a disconnetion of frontal and medial temperal memory systems.

作 者： Ytt Kai Yu Feng Qi Lei Zheng Lin Zhang Jun   作者單位： Ytt Kai(Department of Neurology the Shenyang railway Hospital ,Shenyang,110005)

Yu Feng Qi(First clinical College of Dalian Medical University,Dalian,116011)

Lei Zheng Lin,Zhang Jun(Second Affiliated Hospital, Shenyang Medical College) 

刊 名： 中國臨床神經科學  ISTIC 英文刊名： CHINESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES  年，卷(期)： 2000 8(z1)  分類號：   關鍵詞：