The burden and cost of disorders of the brain in Europe with the inclusion of harmful alcohol use and nicotine addiction

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 742-748

  Effertz, Tobias ^a   Mann, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Burden of disease; Cost of Illness; DALY; Substance use disorders; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DSM-5; EPILEPSY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIGRAINE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; BRAIN DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84878880173     PISSN: 0924977X     EISSN: 18737862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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