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Persistent altered mentation due to ethanol
1Department of Medicine (Neurology), Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Neurologic Clinics
|August 1, 1993
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.