...Fabrice Bartolomei; Laurent Suchet; Maryline Barrie; Jean-Louis Gastaut The interactions between alcohol and the CNS are complex and there are experimental data suggesting that chronic and acute effects are different and often opposite. An intriguing hypothesis is that repeated alcohol withdrawal...

...Ramón Miralles; Josep M. Espadaler; Xavier Navarro; Juan Rubiés-Prat Autonomic nerve function was evaluated in 30 alcoholics and 30 healthy subjects by means of cardiovascular function tests, pupil cycle time (PCT), and sympathetic skin responses (SSR). Nutritional status was assessed...

...J. Valmier; J. Touchon; M. Zanca; V. Fauchère; P. Bories; M. Baldy-Moulinier Thirty alcoholic with a mean age of 44.8 years were examined with the intravenous 133-Xenon method for measurements of regional cerebral flow (rCBF). The results were related to liver histology and hepatic function tests...

...F. Savoldi; G.L. Mazzella; F. Facchinetti; G. Nappi; F. Petraglia; E.. Sinforiani; D. Parrini; A.R. Genazzani In 34 chronic alcoholics, subdivided into two groups according to the state of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), β-lipotropin (β-LPH), β-endorphin (β-EP), ACTH and Cortisol levels were...

...Keitaro Kobatake; Fumihito Yoshii; Yukito Shinohara; Kimihisa Nomura; Satoshi Takagi Smooth pursuit eye movement was quantitatively evaluated in 99 chronic alcoholics and in 100 nonalcoholic control subjects. In both groups the smooth pursuit was increasingly impaired with advancing age...

...R. Naeije; L. Franken; D. Jacobovitz; J. Flament-Durand A 49-year-old alcoholic woman was admitted for convulsions. She died after a 4-week clinical course characterized by a persistent coma with diffuse muscular hypertonia. Post-mortem examination of the brain demonstrated a spongy degeneration...

...J.M.S. Pearce Wernicke described the clinical features of three patients, including two alcoholics, suffering from confusion, ataxia and ophthalmoplegia in whom pathologically he found ‘polioencephalitis haemorrhagica superioris’. Korsakoff’s doctoral thesis related similar findings but expanded...

... are related to severe diseases. Chronic alcoholism is still the most common underlying condition of CPM patients. In the literature, 174 cases of CPM have been reported in alcoholics since 1986, which is equivalent to an incidence of 39.4%. Likewise, 95 cases of CPM following the correction of hyponatremia...