Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency

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Thiamine deficiency in malnourished and alcoholic patients may lead to chronic neuropathy and degeneration of the anterior lobes of the cerebellum entailing ataxia and tremor of trunk and legs during stance and walking.

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2009). Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_5990

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_5990
Published: 24 January 2024
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