The cerebral cortex is damaged in chronic alcoholics

Neuroscience

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 983-998

  Kril, J J ^a,b   Halliday, G M ^a,c   Svoboda, M D ^a   Cartwright, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Frontal lobe; Korsakoff's psychosis; Neurotoxicity; Quantitation; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030788747     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00083-3     Document Type: Article

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