Decreased corpus callosum size among alcoholic women

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 359-363

  Hommer, Daniel ^a,b   Momenan, Reza ^a   Rawlings, Robert ^a   Ragan, Paul ^a   Williams, Wendol ^a   Rio, Daniel ^a   Eckardt, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b MSC 1256 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029872933     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1996.00550040099019     Document Type: Article

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