1. Clinical and subclinical nutritional neurological damage in former war prisoners of the Japanese.
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Venables GS, Welch JL, and Gill GV
- Subjects
- Aged, Basal Ganglia Diseases etiology, Dementia etiology, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Humans, Japan, Male, Middle Aged, Optic Atrophy etiology, Peripheral Nervous System Diseases etiology, Time Factors, Nervous System Diseases etiology, Nutrition Disorders complications, Prisoners, Warfare
- Abstract
Five former war prisoners of the Japanese were clinically evaluated and intensively investigated for evidence of neurological disease. On release from imprisonment 36 years previously they were known to have a single neurological problem each, attributable to nutritional damage to the nervous system (four had optic atrophy and one a peripheral neuropathy). The present assessment confirmed these persisting neurological problems; but in addition two patients were found to have extrapyramidal and one pyramidal disease, one was demented, and two had evidence of non-dominant hemisphere damage on psychometric testing. Nutritional damage to the nervous system may be permanent, and more extensive than usually recognized.
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- 1985
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