Weekly alcohol consumption, brain atrophy, and white matter hyperintensities in a community-based sample aged 60 to 64 years

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 778-785

  Anstey, Kaarin J ^a   Jorm, Anthony F ^b   Réglade Meslin, Chantal ^a   Maller, Jerome ^a   Kumar, Rajeev ^a   Von Sanden, Chwee ^a   Windsor, Timothy D ^a   Rodgers, Bryan ^a   Wen, Wei ^c   Sachdev, Perminder ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Corpus callosum; Gray matter; Hippocampus; Sex differences; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; AMYGDALA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ANXIETY; ATROPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33749051630     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000237779.56500.af     Document Type: Article

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