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Gaustada syndrome

Gaustada a syndrome (V. Gaustad, the Norwegian doctor, was born in 1907) – the symptom complex of a liver failure noted at alcoholic encephalopathy which is expressed motive frustration (including a tremor) and reversible disorders of consciousness up to a coma.

 
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The weight of a human brain makes about 2% of all body weight, however it consumes about 20% of the oxygen coming to blood. This fact does a human brain extremely susceptible to the damages caused by shortage of oxygen.