Associations between alcohol intake and brain volumes in male and female moderate drinkers

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 656-663

  De Bruin, Eveline A ^a,d   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^b   Bijl, Suzanne ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^b   Fluitman, Sjoerd ^b   Böcker, Koen B E ^a   Kenemans, J Leon ^a,c   Kahn, René S ^b   Verbaten, Marinus N ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Brain Volumes; Frontal; Moderate Drinking; White Matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THIRD VENTRICLE;

EID: 17444394447     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000159110.17351.C0     Document Type: Article

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