Sergei Korsakoff 4467323 223651794 2008-07-05T02:30:19Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other [[Image:Sergey Korsakov.jpg|thumb|Korsakov in 1885]] '''Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff''' ({{lang-ru|Сергей Сергеевич Корсаков}}; [[January 22]] [[1854]], [[Vladimir]] - [[May 1]] [[1900]], [[Moscow]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[Neuropsychiatry|neuropsychiatrist]]. Sergei Korsakoff was the first of great Russian neuropsychiatrists. He studied [[medicine]] at the University of Moscow, graduated in 1875 and subsequently became [[physician]] to ''"Preobrazhenski"'' ({{lang-ru|Преображенский}}) [[psychiatric hospital|mental hospital]]. From 1876 to 1879 he gained [[postgraduate education|postgraduate]] experience in the [[clinic]] for nervous diseases under [[Aleksei Kozhevnikov]]. His [[thesis]] ''"Alcoholic Paralysis"'' won him the medical [[doctorate]] in 1887. In 1892 he was appointed professor extraordinarius at a new university [[Psychiatry|psychiatric]] clinic. During this time he visited [[Vienna]] where he was a pupil of [[Theodor Meynert]]. He was ''ordinarius'' of [[neurology]] and [[psychiatry]] from 1899 until his [[death]] the next year. Korsakoff was one of the greatest neuropsychiatrists of the 19th century and published numerous works in [[neuropathology]], [[psychiatry]], and [[forensic medicine]]. Apart from his studies on [[alcohol]]ic [[psychosis]], he introduced the concept of [[paranoia]] and wrote an excellent [[textbook]] on psychiatry. Korsakoff studied the effects of [[alcoholism]] on the [[nervous system]] and drew attention to several cases of alcoholic [[polyneuropathy]] with distinctive mental [[symptom]]s. An able organiser, he was instrumental in founding the Moscow Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists. The ''"Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imenia Korsakov"'' ({{lang-ru|Журнал невропаталогий и психиатрий имение Корсаков}}, Korsakoff's Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry) was named after him. ==Associated eponyms== * ''[[Korsakoff's syndrome|Korsakoff's psychosis and syndrome]]'': [[amnesia|Amnestic]]-confabulatory syndrome with three salient features (1) severe [[memory]] defect, especially for recent events; (2) [[confabulation]], i.e. falsification of memory in an alert, responsive individual; and (3) [[polyneuropathy]] (''psychosis polyneuritica''), usually associated with [[alcoholism]] and [[malnutrition]]. * ''[[Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome]]'' or ''Polioencephalitis hemorrhagica superior'' associated with ''Korsakoff's psychosis'': A condition characterized by [[nystagmus]], ocular and conjugate [[gaze palsie]]s, [[ataxia]] and [[psychosis]] due to nutritional deficiency, more specifically of [[thiamine]] and observed mainly, though not exclusively, in alcoholics. ==Bibliography== * Barry G. Firkin and J.A. Whitworth: ''Dictionary of Medical Eponyms''. Parthenon Publishing Group. New edition 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Korsakoff, Sergei Sergeievich}} [[Category:1854 births]] [[Category:1900 deaths]] [[Category:Russian psychiatrists]] [[de:Sergei Sergejewitsch Korsakow]] [[nl:Sergej Korsakov]] [[pl:Siergiej Korsakow]] [[ru:Корсаков, Сергей Сергеевич]]