[HTML][HTML] Alcohol's effects on the brain: neuroimaging results in humans and animal models

NM Zahr, A Pfefferbaum - Alcohol research: current reviews, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Brain imaging technology has allowed researchers to conduct rigorous studies of the
dynamic course of alcoholism through periods of drinking, sobriety, and relapse and to gain …

Neuroimaging of the Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome

EV Sullivan, A Pfefferbaum - Alcohol & Alcoholism, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Aim: Presented is the neuroradiological signature of acute Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE),
derived from different types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences. WE results …

Glucose before thiamine for Wernicke encephalopathy: a literature review

E Schabelman, D Kuo - The Journal of emergency medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The prevailing teaching in medical school curricula and in medical
textbooks is that if thiamine deficiency is suspected, thiamine supplementation should be …

Wernicke encephalopathy: MR findings and clinical presentation

S Weidauer, M Nichtweiss, H Lanfermann… - European radiology, 2003 - Springer
Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) is a severe neurological disorder caused by vitamin B1
deficiency. The aim of the study was to analyse MRI findings typical for this disease and to …

Unpeeling the evidence for the banana bag: evidence-based recommendations for the management of alcohol-associated vitamin and electrolyte deficiencies in the …

AH Flannery, DA Adkins, AM Cook - Critical Care Medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Patients with a chronic alcohol use disorder presenting to the ICU may be
deficient in important vitamins and electrolytes and are often prescribed a “banana bag” as a …

[HTML][HTML] Development and resolution of brain lesions caused by pyrithiamine-and dietary-induced thiamine deficiency and alcohol exposure in the alcohol-preferring …

A Pfefferbaum, E Adalsteinsson, RL Bell… - …, 2007 - nature.com
Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is characterized by lesions in thalamus, hypothalamus
(including mammillary nuclei), and inferior colliculi, results in serious disabilities, has an …

Acute thiamine deficiency in diabetic ketoacidosis: Diagnosis and management

JA Clark, I Burny, AP Sarnaik… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Persistent encephalopathy in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis is often feared
as a sign of cerebral edema. Although thiamine deficiency is a rare diagnosis in children …

Neurodegeneration in thiamine deficient rats—A longitudinal MRI study

V Dror, S Eliash, M Rehavi, Y Assaf, IE Biton… - Brain research, 2010 - Elsevier
Selective neurodegeneration accompanied by mitochondrial dysfunction characterizes
neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Thiamine …

Molecular biologic and scintigraphic analyses of somatostatin receptor-negative meningiomas

C Meewes, KH Bohuslavizki, B Krisch… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) using 111In-octreotide has proven useful in the
preoperative discrimination of expansive central nervous system lesions. Meningiomas …

Glucose loading precipitates acute encephalopathy in thiamin-deficient rats

C Zimitat, PF Nixon - Metabolic brain disease, 1999 - Springer
A rat model of glucose-precipitated Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) has been developed in
which glucose loading (10 g/kg, ip) of ataxic thiamin-deficient (TD) rats induced episodes of …