Brain atrophy and alcoholism.
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Brain atrophy and alcoholism.
Alcoholism has no satisfactory definition, yet no more useful term is available to describe chronic and deleterious over-consumption. Alcohol is mostly drunk for its pharmacological effects on the nervous system, so not surprisingly the brain is one of the organs that suffers most-along with the liver, which detoxifies the alcohol. The effects on the nervous system include direct intoxication, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.292.6523.787