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Tropical Neuropathy and Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

T. Asuni
T. Asuni*
Affiliation:
Aro Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Abeokuta, Nigeria
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Tropical neuropathies have been causally related to disturbances of pyruvate metabolism (Monekosso, 1963); like the neuropathy described by Wernicke, they are thought to be due to vitamin B deficiency. The clinical picture includes mental disturbances of the organic type, such as disturbance of memory, confabulation, apathy, disorientation, etc. Reports do not mention symptoms suggestive of functional psychosis.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 502 , September 1967 , pp. 1031 - 1033
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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