Metabolic Brain Disease

Preface

Neuropsychiatric Complications of Liver Transplantation

Andrea Stracciari, Maria Guarino

Attention Deficits in Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy

Karin Weissenborn, Susanne Heidenreich, Jochen Ennen, Norbert Rückert, Hartmut Hecker

Review: Surgical Shunts and Encephalopathy

Jürgen Klempnauer, Harald Schrem

Movement Dysfunction and Hepatic Encephalopathy

Gilles Pomier Layrargues

Quality of Life in Cirrhotics with Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy

Hans Schomerus, Wolfgang Hamster

Visual Event-Related Potentials in Cirrhotic Patients Without Overt Encephalopathy: The Effects of Flumazenil

E. Anthony Jones, Vessela I. Giger-Mateeva, Dick Reits, Frans C.C. Riemslag, Boris Liberov, Henk Spekrijse

Neurotransmitter Dysfunction in Hepatic Encephalopathy: New Approaches and New Findings

Roger F. Butterworth

Cerebral Energy Metabolism in Hepatic Encephalopathy and Hyperammonemia

K.V. Rama Rao, M.D. Norenberg

The Central Opioid System in Liver Disease and Its Complications

Cihan Yurdaydin

Pathophysiology of Brain Edema in Fulminant Hepatic Failure, Revisited

Andres T. Blei

Mild Hypothermia Prevents Cerebral Edema and CSF Lactate Accumulation in Acute Liver Failure

Nicolas Chatauret, Christopher Rose, Guy Therrien, Roger F. Butterworth

Treatment of Acute Liver Failure

Klaus H.W. Boeker