MR VOLUMETRY DURING ACUTE ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL AND ABSTINENCE: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

• Published in: Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford) Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 71 - 78
• Main Authors: Agartz, Ingrid, Brag, Svante, Franck, Johan, Hammarberg, Anders, Okugawa, Gaku, Svinhufvud, Katarina, Bergman, Hans
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.01.2003; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Adult; Alcoholics; Alcoholism - diagnosis; Alcoholism - rehabilitation; Alcoholism and acute alcohol poisoning; Anthropometry; Atrophy; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Brain - pathology; Detoxification; Ethanol - adverse effects; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Mathematical Computing; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Recurrence; Reference Values; Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome - diagnosis; Sweden; Temperance; Toxicology; Sweden; Human; Volumetric analysis; Alcoholism; Grey matter; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; White matter; Abstinence; Brain (vertebrata)
• ISSN: 0735-0414; 1464-3502
• DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agg020

— Aims: The brain volume of chronic drinkers is known to partially recover with abstinence from alcohol. To investigate the relative contribution of grey and white brain matter to this process, magnetic resonance imaging and brain tissue segmentation was used to study brain tissue in acute alcohol w...