Palimpsest is an unusual disorder of the brainactivity associated with improper memory performance. During alcoholic or narcotic intoxication, a person can not remember some details of what is happening (the general picture of a person remembers, but some details of a particular event disappear from memory).
Palimpsest foretells alcoholism
It is believed that the palimpsest are the first signsalcoholism. The first days people forget just some fragments of what is happening yesterday, then with greater use of alcohol dips appear more often and more. This brain disorder eventually develops into full-fledged amnesia, a person in alcoholic intoxication does not remember anything from a certain moment to falling asleep.
Stages of alcoholism
At the first stage of alcoholism appearsobsessive dependence in the use of alcohol, increases alcohol tolerance to strong drinks. Palimpsest is a kind of conductor between the first and second stages of alcoholism.
Then begins a strong attraction to alcohol,the forms of intoxication and amnesia change, the first features of human degradation appear. Changes take place not only from a psychological point of view, but also from a physical one, changes in internal organs occur.
At the third stage alcoholism alcoholicPalimpsest passes into amnesia, failures in the memory of a person can reach several hours. An important moment for determining this stage is a decrease in tolerance to alcohol, alcoholic psychoses appear.
How to get rid of short-term amnesia
When a person has even a minorfailures in memory, it should be understood that he has a palimpsest. This brain disorder requires immediate treatment, but first you will have to admit that there is alcohol dependence, and only then start solving the problem.
In complicated cases, the treatment procedure takes place in a stationary setting, but mostly at home, under the supervision of the treating doctor.
The first thing the doctor prescribes is the vitamin B group.They allow a person to restore broken neural connections. This process of treatment is quite long (several months), but effective. Sometimes drugs used to improve tissue metabolism are used.
Palimpsest is the first call for a person,actively taking a great interest in alcohol, that the first stage of alcoholism begins. If after the stormy festivities you have some minor dips in your memory, you should seriously pay attention to this problem.
