Alcohol and the nervous system

Current Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-209

  Alderazi, Yazan ^a   Brett, Francesca ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Blood alcohol concentration; Central pontine myelinolysis; Dementia; Foetal alcohol syndrome; Marchiafava Bignami disease; Morel's laminar sclerosis; Subdural haemorrhage; Trauma; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALORIC INTAKE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MARCHIAFAVA BIGNAMI DISEASE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NICOTINIC ACID DEFICIENCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PELLAGRA; POLYNEUROPATHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 34250739507     PISSN: 09686053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdip.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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