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The article presents a comment of the study conducted by psychiatrists E. Grünthal and G. E. Störing's case of organic amnesic syndrome. It questions the memory retention defects due to the symptoms reported by Grünthall and Störing's original paper on its theoretical and practical importance of the case. Carbon monoxide intoxication of the patient was the reason for both psychiatrists to conclude on the patient's emotional, temperamental and memory defects. However, professor H. Scheller re-investigated the case and doubted that organic amnesic syndrome was attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning since there was no similar case reported and no neurological signs in intoxication with severe psychiatric disturbance.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article about the study of the views of Kraepelin in the November 1967 issue.