Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome caused by psychogenic food refusal: MR findings.
A 37-year-old woman developed Wernicke encephalopathy after prolonged psychogenic food refusal. MR revealed characteristic signal abnormalities in the midbrain and dorsal thalamus. Follow-up scans showed atrophy and third ventricular enlargement. Wernicke encephalopathy can occur in nonalcoholics, and MR imaging is useful in both the diagnosis and follow-up.
Doraiswamy
P M
PM
Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
Massey
E W
EW
Enright
K
K
Palese
V J
VJ
Lamonica
D
D
Boyko
O
O
D000328:Adult; D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014899:Wernicke Encephalopathy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*