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]
, 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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Case 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
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Revista 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
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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome diagnostics and rehabilitation in the post-acute phase
Addiction Neuroscience, 2022 Severe addiction to alcohol can lead to malnutrition. Wernicke's Encephalopathy is an acute and preventable neuropsychiatric syndrome resulting from thiamine deficiency.
Erik Oudman +6 more
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Wernicke encephalopathy after sleeve gastrectomy
Ожирение и метаболизм, 2023 The article describes the case of a patient with Wernicke encephalopathy, which developed 3 months after the sleeve gastrectomy. An MRI of the brain was performed to verify the diagnosis, which revealed a symmetrical non-uniform increase in the MR signal
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Alcohol Withdrawal – Therapeutical Management in Surgical Patients with Upper Intestinal Bleeding [PDF]
, 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
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A single-system account of the relationship between priming, recognition, and fluency. [PDF]
, 2008 A single-system computational model of priming and recognition was applied to studies that have looked at the relationship between priming, recognition, and fluency in continuous identification paradigms.
Berry, CJ, Henson, RN, Shanks, DR
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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome secondary to cytomegalovirus encephalitis: A case report
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2017 Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the opportunistic microorganisms with the highest prevalence in immunocompromised patients. Reactivation has decreased after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
Luis Guillermo Uribe +4 more
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A single-system model predicts recognition memory and repetition priming in amnesia [PDF]
, 2014 We challenge the claim that there are distinct neural systems for explicit and implicit memory by demonstrating that a formal single-system model predicts the pattern of recognition memory (explicit) and repetition priming (implicit) in amnesia.
Berry, CJ +3 more
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Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome: A Case Series in Liaison Psychiatry. [PDF]
, 2020 Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) is a life-threatening and underdiagnosed neuropsychiatric condition caused by thiamine deficiency that comprises Wernicke encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome. Although mainly associated with chronic alcoholism, WKS can
Afonso, H +4 more
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