Venables G S, Welch J L, Gill G V
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1985;79(3):412-4. doi: 10.1016/0035-9203(85)90393-1.
Five former war prisoners of the Japanese were clinically evaluated and intensively investigated for evidence of neurological disease. On release from imprisonment 36 years previously they were known to have a single neurological problem each, attributable to nutritional damage to the nervous system (four had optic atrophy and one a peripheral neuropathy). The present assessment confirmed these persisting neurological problems; but in addition two patients were found to have extrapyramidal and one pyramidal disease, one was demented, and two had evidence of non-dominant hemisphere damage on psychometric testing. Nutritional damage to the nervous system may be permanent, and more extensive than usually recognized.
对五名前日本战犯进行了临床评估，并对其进行了深入调查，以寻找神经疾病的证据。据了解，36年前他们获释时每人都有一个单一的神经问题，归因于神经系统的营养损伤（四人患有视神经萎缩，一人患有周围神经病变）。目前的评估证实了这些持续存在的神经问题；但此外，还发现两名患者患有锥体外系疾病，一名患有锥体疾病，一名患有痴呆症，两名患者在心理测试中显示有非优势半球损伤的证据。神经系统的营养损伤可能是永久性的，且比通常认为的更为广泛。
