RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
A1 Prasad, Sashank
SR Print(0)
ID 1199449610
T1 Diseases of the Nervous System Caused by Nutritional Deficiency
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 12e
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264264520
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1199449610
RD 2024/04/19
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  countries,  deficiency  diseases  are  endemic,  the  result  of  chronic  dietary  deprivation.  And  the  ultimate  effects  on  the  nervous  system  of  intermittent  mass  starvation  remain  an  alarming  medical  and  humanitarian  crisis.