Relationship between alcohol withdrawal seizures and temporal lobe white matter volume deficits

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 348-354

  Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Marsh, Laura ^b   Mathalon, Daniel H ^b   Lim, Kelvin O ^b   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alcoholics; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Temporal Lobes; White Matter; Withdrawal Seizures

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ALCOHOLISM; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0029887818     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb01651.x     Document Type: Article

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