Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System
Synonyms
Encephalopathy, Mercury
Inorganic Mercury Poisoning
Mad Hatter Disease
Mad Hatter Diseases
Mad Hatter's Disease
Mad Hatters Disease
Mercurial Neuroanesthenia
Mercurial Psychosis
Mercurialism, Nervous System
Mercurialism, Neurologic
Mercury Encephalopathy
Mercury Induced Nervous System Diseases
Mercury Neurotoxicity Syndrome
Mercury Neurotoxicity Syndromes
Mercury Poisoning, Inorganic
Mercury Poisoning, Neurologic
Mercury Poisoning, Organic
Mercury Psychosis
Mercury-Induced Nervous System Diseases
Minamata Disease
Nervous System Diseases, Mercury Induced
Nervous System Diseases, Mercury-Induced
Nervous System Mercurialism
Nervous System Poisoning, Mercury
Neuroanesthenia, Mercurial
Neurologic Mercurialism
Neurologic Mercury Poisoning
Neurotoxicity Syndrome, Mercury
Neurotoxicity Syndromes, Mercury
Organic Mercury Poisoning
Poisoning, Inorganic Mercury
Poisoning, Mercury, Nervous System
Poisoning, Mercury, Neurologic
Poisoning, Neurologic Mercury
Poisoning, Organic Mercury
Psychosis, Mercurial
Psychosis, Mercury
Syndrome, Mercury Neurotoxicity
Syndromes, Mercury Neurotoxicity
System Mercurialism, Nervous
Neurologic disorders associated with exposure to inorganic and organic forms of MERCURY. Acute intoxication may be associated with gastrointestinal disturbances, mental status changes, and PARAPARESIS. Chronic exposure to inorganic mercury usually occurs in industrial workers, and manifests as mental confusion, prominent behavioral changes (including psychosis), DYSKINESIAS, and NEURITIS. Alkyl mercury poisoning may occur through ingestion of contaminated seafood or grain, and its characteristic features include POLYNEUROPATHY; ATAXIA; vision loss; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; and DEAFNESS. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1997, Ch20, pp10-15)