The electroencephalogram in veganism, vegetarianism, vitamin B12 deficiency, and in controls.
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The electroencephalogram in veganism, vegetarianism, vitamin B12 deficiency, and in controls.
The electroencephalogram (E.E.G.) is often abnormal in patients with pernicious anaemia. This abnormality is not related to age or to haemoglobin level and is reversible with vitamin B12 therapy. In 76 cases of pernicious anaemia with abnormal E.E.G.s (Walton, Kiloh, Osselton, and Farrall, 1954) the changes in the E.E.G. were reversed in 60 (79 %) by the administration of vitamin B12, the impro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.29.5.391