Alcohol Amnestic Disorder:  Formally called Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome, a neurological disease manifested by ataxia, ophthalmoplegia (especially involving cranial nerve VI), nystagmus, and confusion.  Wernicke's is reversible; Korsakoff's is generally not. (Kaplan, 226).   Severe impairment of recent memory is the hallmark deficit and confabulation may be present.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:  Characterized by mental retardation, growth deficiencies, craniofacial and midline defects (such as thin vermillion of the upper lip), limb malformation, cardiac defects, and delayed motor development.  The risk of an alcoholic mother having a child with FAS is about 35 percent.   (Kaplan, 5th edition, 226)

 

References:

Kaplan, HI, Sadock, BJ.  Synopsis of Psychiatry, 5th edition.  Williams & Wilkins:  1988.