Brain shrinkage in alcoholics: A decade on and what have we learned?

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 381-387

  Kril, Jillian J ^a   Halliday, Glenda M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALCOHOLISM; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 0032894135     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(98)00091-4     Document Type: Review

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