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Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome in Primary Peritoneal Cancer

open access: yesCase Reports in Oncology, 2013
Wernicke encephalopathy is a disease that constitutes a medical emergency, but one that can be reversed with thiamine repletion if it is recognized early.
Ki Hyang Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing double: the low-carb diet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
No abstract ...
Drummond, Russell S.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Unusual Presentation of Uncommon Disease: Anorexia Nervosa Presenting as Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome—A Case Report from Southeast Asia

open access: yesCase Reports in Psychiatry, 2014
Anorexia nervosa presenting as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is rare. The causes of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome are multiple like alcohol abuse, thyrotoxicosis, haemodialysis, severe malnutrition because of gastric carcinoma and pyloric obstruction ...
Raheel Mushtaq   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Korsakoff Syndrome in Non-alcoholic Psychiatric Patients. Variable Cognitive Presentation and Impaired Frontotemporal Connectivity

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Background: Non-alcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome are greatly underdiagnosed. There are very few reported cases of neuropsychologically documented non-alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome, and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data are ...
Georgios Nikolakaros   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neurological, Psychiatric, and Biochemical Aspects of Thiamine Deficiency in Children and Adults. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Thiamine (vitamin B1) is an essential nutrient that serves as a cofactor for a number of enzymes, mostly with mitochondrial localization. Some thiamine-dependent enzymes are involved in energy metabolism and biosynthesis of nucleic acids whereas others ...
Adams   +154 more
core   +2 more sources

Aspectos clínicos e neuropatológicos da síndrome de Wernicke-Korsakoff Clinical and neurophatological aspects of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública, 1996
O abuso de álcool é um dos mais sérios problemas de saúde pública e a síndrome de Wernicke-Korsakoff é uma das mais graves conseqüências do alcoolismo.
Carlos Zubaran   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

When True Recognition Suppresses False Recognition: Evidence from Amnesic Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
False recognition occurs when people mistakenly claim that a novel item is familiar. After studying lists of semantically related words, healthy controls show extraordinarily high levels of false recognition to nonstudied lures that are semantic ...
Anes, Michael D.   +3 more
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The Long-Term Cost to the UK NHS and Social Services of Different Durations of IV Thiamine (Vitamin B1) for Chronic Alcohol Misusers with Symptoms of Wernicke's Encephalopathy Presenting at the Emergency Department. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is an acute neuropsychiatric condition caused by depleted intracellular thiamine, most commonly arising in chronic alcohol misusers, who may present to emergency departments (EDs) for a variety of reasons ...
Mirza, Zulfiquar   +2 more
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The importance of mammillary body efferents for recency memory: towards a better understanding of diencephalic amnesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Despite being historically one of the first brain regions linked to memory loss, there remains controversy over the core features of diencephalic amnesia as well as the critical site for amnesia to occur.
Nelson, Andrew J. D., Vann, Seralynne D.
core   +1 more source

Alcohol Withdrawal – Therapeutical Management in Surgical Patients with Upper Intestinal Bleeding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Psychological dependence involves a desire to use a drug to avoid the unpleasant withdrawal syndrome that results from cessation of exposure to it. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is one of the most feared complications of alcohol addiction and sometimes can
Bogdan, Popescu   +5 more
core   +4 more sources

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