Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff

Biography

• Born 1854
• 1890 – Founded the Moscow Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists
• 1897 – Organised the 12th International Medical Congress of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists, held in Moscow
• Died 1 May 1900

Medical Eponyms

Korsakoff psychosis

Korsakoff’s Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Журнал невропатологии и психиатрии имени Корсакова, 

Key Medical Attributions

Korsakoff is best known for his work detailing the cognitive and physical effects of chronic alcoholism

Controversies

• Dat of birth ?1853, 1854

Major Publications

• Korsakoff SS. Об алкогольном параличе [On alcoholic paralysis]. Doctoral dissertation, Moscow. 1887
• Korsakoff SS. Eine psychische Störung combinirt mit multipler Neuritis (Psychosis polyneuritica seu Cerebropathia psychica toxaemica) [Psychic disorder in conjunction with multiple neuritis]. Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie 1890; 46: 475–485 [also Medizinskoje Obozrenije 1889; 31(13)]
• Korsakov SS. Étude médico-psychologique sur une forme des maladies de la mémoire. Revue Philosophique 1889; 28: 501–530. [Trans. Banks W, Karam SJ. Medico-psychological study of memory disorder. Consciousness and Cognition 1996; 5: 2–21]
• Korsakoff SS. Über eine besondere Form psychischer Störung kombiniert mit multipler Neuritis. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 1890; 21: 669–704
• Korsakoff SS. Über Erinnerungsstörungen (Pseudoreminiszenzen) bei polyneuritischen Psychosen. Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie 1891; 47

References

• Jelliffe SJ. The alcoholic psychoses. Chronic alcoholic delirium (Korsakoff’s psychosis). 1908
• Vein A. Sergey Sergeevich Korsakov (1854–1900). J Neurol. 2009; 256(10): 1782–1783.
• Ovsyannikov SA, Ovsyannikov AS. Sergey S. Korsakov and the beginning of Russian psychiatry. J Hist Neurosci. 2007; 16(1-2): 58-64.
• Veijn AA. The Moscow Clinic for Nervous Diseases – Walking Along the Portraits. J Hist Neurosci. 2007; 16(1-2): 42-57.