Longitudinal brain metabolic characterization of chronic alcoholics with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1368-1380

  Parks, Mitchell H ^a,b   Dawant, Benoit M ^c   Riddle, William R ^a   Hartmann, Steven L ^d   Dietrich, Mary S ^b,c   Nickel, Mark K ^a,b   Price, Ronald R ^a   Martin, Peter R ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Frontal Lobe; Proton Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 0036738351     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000374-200209000-00010     Document Type: Article

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