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Regional cerebral blood flow during alcoholic blackout
M Berglund1, I Prohovnik, J Risberg
1Department of Alcohol Diseases, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
Psychiatry Research
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Regional cerebral blood flow was measured during alcoholic blackout in a 61-year-old man with a blood-alcohol level of 0.38%. The mean flow level was found to be elevated by about 30-60% compared to repeated studies during long-term abstinence. The regional pattern did not change greatly. Increases of mean regional cerebral blood flow have previously been reported during social drinking and in Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome. A common disturbance of subcortical activation systems is hypothesized.