Korsakov's syndrome is a devastating impairment of recent memory that is caused by a thiamine deficiency which can result from alcohol abuse, mal-absorption, hyperemesis or starvation. Furthermore, other causes of Korsakov's syndrome also include heavy metal poisoning, head injury and tumors. A patient suffering from Korsakov's syndrome will most likely have an extensive pathology in the bilateral hippocampus and will actively exhibit confabulation. Confabulation occurs when a patient creates pseudo-memories about what happened during a forgotten episode. Also, during confabulation the patient's recall of the events of the past seem more imaginative than logical. Fortunately, although the patient may exemplify confabulation there are still certain perceptions and other cognitive functions that remain intact and are known to function normally. Korsakov's syndrome is also known to cause retrograde amnesia. Retrograde amnesia is amnesia that occurs before the trauma or disease that caused the condition and thus, individuals lack the ability to recall events prior to the traum...
In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the style enhances the nightmarish quality of the work. Franz wrote in section one paragraph one “He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.” Franz describes the changes to Gregor’s body so well that you can picture a large vermin squirming around on a bed. Franz also wrote “There was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened.”
Time: How does the way the writer moves between the past and present and future affect the structure of the book? How might this technique inform my approach?
In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, Chopin uses the motif of the ocean to signify the awakening of Edna Pontellier. Chopin compares the life of Edna to the dangers and beauty of a seductive ocean. Edna's fascinations with the unknown wonders of the sea help influence the reader to understand the similarities between Edna's life and her relationship with the ocean. Starting with fear and danger of the water then moving to a huge symbolic victory over it, Chopin uses the ocean as a powerful force in Edna's awakening to the agony and complexity of her life.
Victor Frankenstein shows multiple signs of bipolar throughout the story..Bipolar is “a disorder that causes your mood and your emotions to shift dramatically from time to time and is characterized by cycles, usually caused by depression and mania.” (Kaplan) In the story Shelly says that victor saw that “The moon had disappeared from the night, and again, with a lessened form, showed itself, while i still remained in the forest.” ( Shelley, 90) He was sitting alone in the dark forest watching the moon appear and reappear throughout the night so clearly he had something bad on his mind. Victor portrays this symptom because right before this scene in the book, he was in a good mood and wasn 't really feeling anything towards anything, but
This is a disease is found in the brain and is caused by a buildup of a protein called tau. Tau slowly kills brain cells. Even after brain trauma has ended this process still continues. There are many symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, impaired judgement, depression, and even aggression.
One cause is benzodiazepine drugs, which are known to have powerful amnesic affects. This has also been recorded in non-benzodiazepine sedatives which act on the same set of receptors. Another cause is a traumatic brain injury in which damage is usually done to the hippocampus or surrounding cortices. It can also be caused by shock from psychological trauma or an emotional disorder. Illness, though much rarer, can also cause anterograde amnesia such as encephalitis, which is the inflammation of brain tissues do to some foreign pathogen. Lucy is diagnosed as having Goldfield’s Syndrome, which is the exact same thing as anterograde amnesia. She shows signs of short-term memory loss, her brain stores the new memories of the day has she lived however, after falling asleep she is unable to access these
Amnesia, a severe long-term memory loss disease, is caused by damaged brain tissue. There are two different types of amnesia. Retrograde amnesia is also known as backward moving. This is when you have a hard time remembering the past, especially episodic memories. This occurs because of memory consolidation. Memory consolidation is the process of a new memory setting until it becomes permanently in the brain. If this process is disrupted, the memory may be lost (Hockenberry and Hockenberry page 265). Anterograde amnesia is also known as forward moving. This is when you are unable to form new
The delusion is mostly common in patients diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases; such as Alzheimer’s disease (2% - 30%) [8], schizophrenia (15%) [9] and dementia. It has also been seen in patients suffering from brain injury causing lesions, suggesting that the syndrome has an organic basis.
management of real-world memory demands despite profound anterograde amnesia. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, 30(8), 931-945.
The following case study is of a male client, Scout, suffering from localized dissociative amnesia without a fugue state. Dissociative amnesia is when a person cannot remember information about their life. This forgetting can be thematic like specific events, or general, which can be life history or identity. Some people can be affected by both types of forgetting. Dissociative amnesia is much greater memory life than normal forgetting. This often interferes with their professional and social life.
There are many diseases and disorders that may affect the human mind. Some of these are serious, while others are minor and may not even be noticed. Some of the disorders and diseases to be covered in this report are delirium, dementia, and schizophrenia, also a discussion of specific symptoms and treatments available for the different disorders.
Calixta and Alce, the two main characters in the short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, are sexual, mature, and knowing adults. By having them discover amazing sex outside their marriages, they return to their own marriages renewed. Chopin openly condones adultery due to the fact that the characters are not punished and in the end “everyone was happy” (paragraph 40) . A common theme of fresh sexuality and desire is seen in this story though symbols and other literary elements. Kate Chopin is an American author that wrote short stories and novels in the 20th century.
Kate Chopin is one of the most astounding writers of early American short fiction. This author is considered to be among the “most important women in nineteenth-century American fiction” ("Katherine Chopin"). She was also “a significant figure in American feminist literature”(Kort, par 1). One of her famous short stories is called “The Storm”. This deals with the subject of infidelity and sexual fulfillment outside of marriage without moral judgments can be found in this piece. This story was written in 1898 but wasn’t published until 1969 (Larsson, par 17). Chopin uses symbolism, conflict, and setting to bring forth a story that is based on feminist.
Criticism of The Storm by Kate Chopin While it has traditionally been men who have attached the "ball and chain" philosophy to marriage, Kate Chopin gave readers a woman’s view of how repressive and confining marriage can be for a woman, both spiritually and sexually. While many of her works incorporated the notion of women as repressed beings ready to erupt into a sexual a hurricane, none were as tempestuous as The Storm. Kate Chopin was a woman whose feminist viewpoints were far ahead of her time, which of course garnered her more than her share of criticism. In a time when women were expected to behave "properly" and sexual desire was considered to be something only experienced by men, Chopin spoke with exceptional openness about human sexuality.
In his novel Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami utilizes elements of surrealism to interweave dreams and reality. Kafka Tamaru, the eponymous hero, encounters moments when he realizes the intersecting of reality and the dream world, but does not remember whether what happens is his own experience or another’s. Because Kafka’s mother and sister left him with his father when he was a boy, he has little to no recollection of them – his only memory of them is on a beach, near the water, where they vacationed a long time ago. His mother and sister are faceless figures as if they had never existed, and as if they were part of a dream. Satoru Nakata, an elderly man who was involved in the Rice Bowl Hill Incident in 1944 that left him illiterate, also experiences instances when he cannot confirm the reality in several bizarre settings. The mentally disabled Nakata, with his middle aged-companion, Hoshino, travel from their home in Nakano Ward to Shikoku, where Nakata believes he is destined to be. As the title suggests, the shore is an integral element to this story – it is an unclear border that shifts, but connects two distinct components. Kafka’s and Nakata’s drifts between dreams and reality make them incapable of distinguishing their true memories from those from their dreams, thereby exemplifying Murakami’s idea that dreams and reality are constantly interacting with each other upon the shore.