Clinical and pathological features of alcohol-related brain damage

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 284-294

  Zahr, Natalie M ^a   Kaufman, Kimberley L ^b   Harper, Clive G ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; THIAMINE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; ETHANOL; HUMANS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 79955799262     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.42     Document Type: Review

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