Volpe B T, Hirst W
Arch Neurol. 1983 Jul;40(7):436-40. doi: 10.1001/archneur.1983.04050070066017.
We used clinical analysis and criteria derived from the experimental studies of classic amnesic syndromes to characterize the amnesia that follows hypoxic ischemic brain injury from cardiac or respiratory arrest. The results show that patients with hypoxic ischemic amnesia have several neuropsychological features in common with other amnesics, including intact short-term memory, severely depressed free recall, and less depressed recognition of visual and verbal material. Unlike amnesics with alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome, they are oriented and do not confabulate. Hypoxic ischemic brain injury is a common hospital occurrence, and a study of the characteristics of the amnesia that can occur after such injury should enlarge our understanding of the amnesic syndromes.
我们运用临床分析以及源自经典遗忘综合征实验研究的标准，来描述心脏或呼吸骤停所致缺氧缺血性脑损伤后的失忆症。结果显示，缺氧缺血性失忆症患者与其他失忆症患者有若干共同的神经心理学特征，包括短期记忆完好、自由回忆严重受损，以及对视觉和言语材料的识别受损程度较轻。与酒精性柯萨科夫综合征所致失忆症患者不同，他们定向力正常且不虚构。缺氧缺血性脑损伤在医院中很常见，对这种损伤后可能出现的失忆症特征进行研究，应能增进我们对失忆综合征的理解。
