In the United States about 10% of adults meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or
dependence. It is estimated that of those who meet the criteria for alcohol dependence …

This outstanding volume combines the two most pertinent lines of research on central
nervous system deficits associated with chronic alcoholism: the biomedical measurement of …

The aim of this review is to identify neuropathological changes that are directly related to the
long-term use of excessive amounts of alcohol (ethanol). There is still debate as to whether …

Abstract review the recent experimental literature on neuropsychological deficits associated
with chronic alcohol abuse/how different alcoholismic factors (eg, liver disease, family …

Abstract discuss the epidemiology and genetic aspects of alcoholism, clinical
symptomatology and diagnostic categories, brain changes associated with alcoholism …

Chronic alcoholism is characteristically associated with a spectrum of brain disturbances
ranging from the severe symptoms of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (Butters and …

Utilization in Chronic Organic Mental Disorders Associated With Alcoholism Page 1 JOURNAL OF
NEUROPSYCHIATRY 159 Regional Cerebral Glucose Utilization in Chronic Organic Mental …

Alcohol abuse is a major health problem in most parts of the world. This book focuses on the
way in which alcohol affects the brain, with the aim of describing advances in the …

Recent studies that have combined neuropathological data and clinical histories in a
retrospective fashion have shown that Wernicke-Korsakoff neuropathology is often …

This review considers neuropsychological changes associated with alcohol abuse and
touches on related neuropathological and neuroradiological research. Most …