Brain Dysfunction and Alcohol

摘要: Chronic alcoholism is characteristically associated with a spectrum of brain disturbances ranging from the severe symptoms Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (Butters and Cermak, 1980; Victor et al. vn1971) to more subtle, but nonetheless significant, cognitive characteristic majority alcoholic patients. It has been recognized that in some alcoholics damage may be so it renders individual ineffective as member society. Less clinically apparent forms have long suspected overlooked because was not possible examine them available techniques. In individuals, subclinical signs dysfunction possibly significant factor impairing their ability reduce intake or abstain alcohol account for such phenomena loss control.