title: Wernicke-Korsakoff amnestic syndrome secondary to malnutrition in a patient with schizoaffective disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors identify a rare case of Wernicke-Korsakoff amnestic syndrome and highlight its occurrence in the absence of alcohol dependence.
  
  
  METHODS
  A longitudinal case history of a patient with schizoaffective disorder who developed Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome secondary to malnutrition.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Refusal to eat based on persecutory delusions in chronic psychotic patients can cause malnutrition and result in Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With increasing managed-care demands for outpatient treatment of chronic psychotic patients, physicians may see more cases of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome in psychiatric populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, WSUSOM, Dayton VA Medical Center, Ohio 45284, USA.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.lastname: Adityanjee
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sobolewski
authors.forename: V C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Jampala
mesh_terms: D000647:Amnesia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009748:Nutrition Disorders; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D013577:Syndrome; D013702:Temporal Lobe