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The Grünthal-Störring Case of Amnesic Syndrome
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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In 1930, the first report appeared of what was later described as “the first pure case of a man with complete and isolated loss of memory-retention”. At the age of 24, the patient, a skilled tradesman employed in an iron foundry, had been found unconscious at his place of work and was thought to have been overcome by an escape of gas. Some months later he was admitted to Professor M. Reichardt's clinic at Würzburg, where he was diagnosed as a case of severe organic amnesic syndrome consequent upon carbon monoxide intoxication. Over the next few years the patient was exhaustively investigated by Grünthal and Störring, who reported his case in a series of papers (Grünthal and Störring, 1930a, b; Störring, 1931a), later supplemented by a monograph (Störring, 1936). The patient was twice filmed (in 1930 and 1935) and presented at numerous psychiatric meetings and conferences. The sound film was presented by Störring at the International Congress of Neurology in London in July, 1935.
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