The relative roles of alcohol and thiamine deficiency in causing brain damage remain controversial in alcoholics without the Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome.

The researchers found that significantly more patients in the placebo group were started on RRT compared with the thiamine group, after initiation of the study drug (21 versus 3 percent; P = 0.04).

To understand how plants respond to and influence their environments, ecologists often use a series of standardized measurements called functional traits. For example, a plant's capacity to do ...