Ask about physical symptoms of alcoholism. Perform a physical examination that can reveal signs of poor nutrition and alcohol-related liver or nerve damage. Order blood tests to check for anemia, vitamin deficiencies and abnormal levels of liver chemicals.The...
In the brain, alcohol interacts with various neurotransmitters to alter nerve function. Alcohol's depressive effects result in difficulty walking, poor balance, slurring of speech, and generally poor coordination (accounting in part for the increased likelihood of injury). The affected person also may...
Disulfiram has been associated with several types of neurologic conditions, including optic neuritis (inflammation of the optic nerve), which can lead to visual disturbances and eye pain. Other medications used in preventing alcohol relapse are naltrexone (ReVia), acamprosate (Campral), and a class...
Collins MA, A possible neurochemical mechanism for brain and nerve damage associated with chronic alcoholism. Trends Pharmacol Sci 3: 373-315, 1982.Collins M.A. (1982) A possible neurochemical mechanism for brain and nerve damage associated with chronic alcoholism. Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 3 , ...
the classic consequences of endotoxemia associated with liver cirrhosis that were described several decades ago, important research in the last ten years has shown that cytokines may also induce damage in remote organs such as brain, bone, muscle, heart, lung, gonads, peripheral nerve, and ...
1.Effects of motor functional training on microstructure of the sciatic nerve in the rats with chronic alcoholism;运动训练对慢性酒精中毒大鼠坐骨神经功能恢复的影响 2.Establishment of rat model of peripheral neuropathy of chronic alcoholism;大鼠慢性酒精中毒性周围神经病模型的建立 3.Chronic Alcoholism an...
people with chronic alcohol-induced low sodium levels in the bloodstream (hyponatremia) are at risk for severe neurological problems due to a loss of the outer, insulating covering of nerve cells in parts of the brain (central pontine myelinolysis) if low sodium levels are corrected too rapidly....
(i.e. plastic changes of nerve cells) while neuronal loss from selected brain regions indicates permanent and irreversible damage. There is rowing evidence that chronic alcoholism is associated with a derangement in the sulfur amino acid metabolism. Recently, it has been shown that excitatory amino...
Do Women Develop Alcoholic Brain Damage More Readily Than Men? Chronic alcoholism is related to brain damage (i.e., volume changes) in both men and women. There is an open question whether the brains of women are more ... K Mann,A Batra,A Günthner,... - 《Alcoholism Clinical & Ex...
Alcohol depresses nerve centers in the hypothalamus that control sexual arousal and performance. Although sexual urge may increase, sexual performance decreases. Medulla: This area of the brain handles such automatic functions as breathing, consciousness and body temperature. By acting on the medulla, ...