Dr Ray O’Connor takes a look at the latest clinical papers on metabolic medicine There have been some papers of general ...

Symptoms that are sometimes diagnosed as part of dementia might actually be related to a treatable liver condition, according ...

Hepatic encephalopathy: This condition occurs when a person's liver is too damaged to process ammonia as it should. This causes a buildup of ammonia in the blood that eventually travels to the brain, ...

How Liver Failure Affects the Brain Hepatic encephalopathy typically occurs when the liver is no longer able to perform its usual metabolic functions. In persons with a normal liver function, nitrogen ...

Introduction: Wernicke encephalopathy is a metabolic disease mainly associated with vitamin B1 deficiency, which is common in chronic alcoholism. Non-alcoholic Wernicke encephalopathy is difficult for ...

Dec. 4, 2024 — A large study, of 77 deceased male ice hockey players, has found that the odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increased by 34% each ... For Those With CTE ...

Encephalopathy is a syndrome that involves global brain dysfunction. Encephalopathies have varying aetiologies: causes include for example ischaemic or traumatic brain injury, infectious agents ...