Publication Date:
1981-03-06
Description:
Auditory brainstem potentials were recorded from abstinent chronic alcoholics and control subjects. The latencies of peaks II, III, IV, and V were significantly delayed in the alcoholic patients compared to control subjects. Brainstem transmission time was longer in alcoholics than in controls. This study provides systematic evidence that chronic alcohol abuse results in brainstem deficits suggesting possible demyelination of auditory tracts.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Begleiter, H -- Porjesz, B -- Chou, C L -- AA 02686/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 Mar 6;211(4486):1064-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7466379" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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Alcoholism/*physiopathology
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Auditory Perception/*physiology
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Brain Stem/*physiopathology
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Evoked Potentials
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Humans
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Male
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Membrane Potentials
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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