Difference in Brain Densities Between Chronic Alcoholic and Normal Control Patients
- 30 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4481), 508-510
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7455693
Abstract
The densities of the brains of 11 chronic alcoholics were compared with those of 11 age-matched normal control subjects. Densities were determined from the density numbers generated by computerized tomography at three levels of the brain-the highest level of the lateral ventricles and the next two higher levels-with adjustments made to control for possible artifacts in the data. The advantage of the dominant hemisphere over the nondominant hemisphere was lessened in alcoholics.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Brain Atrophy and Intellectual Impairment in Heavy Drinkers—A Clinical, Psychometric and Computerized Tomography StudyAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 1978