Brain Damage Caused by Thiamin Deficiency – The Australian Experience

novel data, which together served to define and explicate an understanding of the alcoholic Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS) from the clinical and basic science perspectives. The symposium's five presentations covered neuropathology, epidemiology, neural and genetic mechanisms, neuropsychological and neuroradiological signs of Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) and Korsakoff's syndrome (KS), and therapeutic approaches to reduce or reverse the potentially devastating and life threatening condition of WKS. The essence of each of the five talks is presented here, and each contributor provided references from the literature to direct scientists and clinicians interested in WKS to primary research sources.