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Type: Published Abstract
Title: Alcoholic females are more susceptible than males to alcohol related brain injury.
Authors: Schweinsburg BC, Alhassoon OM, Taylor MJ, Dager AD, Gonzalez R, Tapert SF, Patterson TL, Grant I
Year: 2002
Publication: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Pages: 287
Abstract:Structural and functional brain investigations have suggested that females may be more susceptible to the deleterious effects of alcohol than men. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS: PRESS, TE 5 35 ms) and a neuropsychological (NP) examination were used to investigate the interactive effects of gender and alcoholism on cognitive function and brain metabolism.We predicted that female alcoholics would perform worse on NP measures and would have lower relative amounts of frontal lobe gray (FGM) and white matter (FWM) N-acetylaspartate (NAA: an indicator of neuronal integrity) relative to controls and male alcoholics. Participants were 7 recently detoxified female alcoholics (RDA

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