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8518715

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-7-28
pubmed:abstractText
Alcoholic brain damage is reversible when the patients are continually abstinent. An increase of brain water content was the putative explanation for this phenomenon. We tested the rehydration hypothesis using CT density measurements in 29 alcohol-dependent male inpatients. During a 5-week period of controlled abstinence, CT density measures did not decrease in any of the investigated regions of the brain as one would expect with an increase in brain water. Although the volumetry of the ventricular system and the subarachnoidal spaces revealed a significant reduction of CSF volume, we found a slight increase in CT density measures. Thus, our results are in contradiction to the rehydration hypothesis. Under discussion is whether neuronal plasticity might be the explanation of the reversibility of alcoholic brain damage in abstinent patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0965-2140
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
88
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
649-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
The reversibility of alcoholic brain damage is not due to rehydration: a CT study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't