title: Neuropsychiatric scurvy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Scurvy is a disease with well-known peripheral symptoms, such as bleeding and pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical and historical evidence for a distinct form of scurvy affecting the central nervous system, called neuropsychiatric scurvy, is reviewed. Pathophysiologic factors are described, as well as its diagnosis and management.
authors.affiliation: Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Administration Center, San Antonio, TX. Electronic address: thomas.brown5@va.gov.
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D051381:Rats; D012614:Scurvy / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*