Intracranial voyeurism: Revealing the mammillary bodies in alcoholism

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1941-1944

  Charness, Michael E ^a,b  

^a VA Hoston Healthcare System   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MAMMILLARY BODY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVIATION; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 0033384694     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1999.tb04095.x     Document Type: Note

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