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Besides thiamine malabsorption or dietary lack of which vitamin may produce a syndrome resembling Korsakoffs dementia?
Nicotinic acid deficiency results in pellagra, whose major and often sole manifestation is psychiatric disturbance, sometimes mimicking Korsakoff’s psychosis.
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- So YT, Simon RP: Deficiency diseases of the nervous system. In Bradley WG, Daroff RB, Fenichel G, Jankovic J (eds): Neurology in clinical practice, 3rd ed. Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, pp 1495-1509, 2000.
- Winston GP, Jaiser SR: Copper deficiency myelopathy and subacute combined degeneration of the cord—why is the phenotype so similar? Med Hypotheses 71:229-236, 2008.