IN GOD WE TRUST –
Jan 25, 2023 – Declarative memory can be further categorized into episodic memory, which allows the recall of life events and their time and place, and semantic memory, which accounts for the crystallized knowledge of information, rules, and processes without necessarily remembering where or when it was learned.
Interestingly, significant memory deficits were found in chronic alcoholics who tended to display disordered memories of recent events. Sergei Korsakoff found one of the dangerous effects of deleterious alcohol use resulted in critical thiamine deficiency, which damages nerve cells, parts of the brain, and the spinal cord. Korsakoff syndrome has symptoms that involve amnesia, tremors, coma, disorientation, vision problems, and impacts on short- and long-term memory.
