TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Diseases of the Nervous System Caused by Nutritional Deficiency A1 - Ropper, Allan H. A1 - Samuels, Martin A. A1 - Klein, Joshua P. A1 - Prasad, Sashank Y1 - 2019 N1 - T2 - Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 11e AB - Among nutritional disorders, those of the nervous system occupy a position of special interest and importance. The early studies of beriberi at the turn of the 20th century were largely responsible for the discovery of thiamine and consequently for the modern concept of diseases of nutritional deficiency. A series of notable achievements in the science of nutrition followed the discovery of vitamins. Despite such progress, diseases caused by nutritional deficiency, and particularly those of the nervous system, continue to represent a worldwide health problem of serious proportions. In communities where the diet consists mainly of highly milled rice there is still a significant incidence of beriberi. In some developing countries, deficiency diseases are endemic, the result of chronic dietary deprivation. And the ultimate effects on the nervous system of intermittent mass starvation, involving large portions of the African continent, remain an alarming medical and humanitarian crisis. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/10 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162598559 ER -