Abstract
Uncomplicated alcoholic subjects present memory disorders affecting selective components of memory: episodic memory, working memory, semantic memory, and procedural memory. These neuropsychological deficits are at least partially reversible with abstinence but, even after a few weeks of sobriety memory deficits, can endure and potentially interfere with activities of daily life and therapeutic efforts. Establishment of the pattern and extent of memory deficits requires systematic testing. Most memory deficits occurring in uncomplicated alcoholics also occur in alcoholics complicated with Korsakoff’s syndrome, which is characterized by a severe to profound deficit in episodic memory (discussed elsewhere in this encyclopedia). These graded memory disorders from uncomplicated alcoholics to alcoholic Korsakoff patients therefore lend weight to a revival of the continuity theory, bridging symptoms from alcoholism, uncomplicated by medical syndromes from liver or nutritional insufficiency, to alcoholism comorbid with such syndromes and attendant severe symptoms of amnesia.
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