Citation

Victor M. Neurol. Clin. 1993; 11(3): 639-661.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine (Neurology), Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8377748

Abstract

It has long been appreciated that the chronic abuse of alcohol may lead to a deterioration of intellect, personality, and behavior. Some of the ways in which this comes about are reasonably well established. The dementing diseases of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, pellagra, the nonfamilial form of hepatocerebral degeneration, Marchiafava-Bignami disease, and alcoholic dementia and their relationships to chronic alcoholism are discussed in this article.

Language: en