POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE*

Post-traumatic amnesia was found to be prolonged in those who were alcohol dependents prior to the head injury. A comparison with controls who were matched for age and severity of head injury indicated that the PTA in the alcoholics was significantly longer. The pathophysiologic changes in the alcoh...

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Autores principales: Sabhesan, S., Natarajan, M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1988
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927335
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description Post-traumatic amnesia was found to be prolonged in those who were alcohol dependents prior to the head injury. A comparison with controls who were matched for age and severity of head injury indicated that the PTA in the alcoholics was significantly longer. The pathophysiologic changes in the alcoholic brain that could explain such variations are discussed in the light of recent findings.
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spelling pubmed-30087882011-09-16 POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE* Sabhesan, S. Natarajan, M. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Post-traumatic amnesia was found to be prolonged in those who were alcohol dependents prior to the head injury. A comparison with controls who were matched for age and severity of head injury indicated that the PTA in the alcoholics was significantly longer. The pathophysiologic changes in the alcoholic brain that could explain such variations are discussed in the light of recent findings. Medknow Publications 1988 /pmc/articles/PMC3008788/ /pubmed/21927335 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE*
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title_fullStr POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE*
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title_short POST TRAUMATIC AMNESIA AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE*
title_sort post traumatic amnesia and alcohol dependence*
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