A controlled study of cortical gray matter and ventricular changes in alcoholic men over a 5-year interval

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 905-912

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Sullivan, Edith V ^b   Rosenbloom, Margaret J ^b,c   Mathalon, Daniel H ^b   Lim, Kelvin O ^b,c  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Psychiatry Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031685386     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.10.905     Document Type: Article

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