title: Clinical and subclinical nutritional neurological damage in former war prisoners of the Japanese.
abstract: Five former war prisoners of the Japanese were clinically evaluated and intensively investigated for evidence of neurological disease. On release from imprisonment 36 years previously they were known to have a single neurological problem each, attributable to nutritional damage to the nervous system (four had optic atrophy and one a peripheral neuropathy). The present assessment confirmed these persisting neurological problems; but in addition two patients were found to have extrapyramidal and one pyramidal disease, one was demented, and two had evidence of non-dominant hemisphere damage on psychometric testing. Nutritional damage to the nervous system may be permanent, and more extensive than usually recognized.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D003704:Dementia / Q000209:etiology; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000209:etiology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D011329:Prisoners; D013997:Time Factors; D014857:Warfare