Brain Damage in Alcoholics without Neuropsychological Impairment. A Population Study

Mützell, Sture

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“…The various forms of mild to severe alcohol-related nutritional deficiencies are also well know to influence brain function (Caine et al, 1997;Langlais et al, 1996;Tarter and Alterman, 1984;Victor et al, 1989). Individual differences in ethanol metabolism and drinking patterns, modified by self-titration (York and Welte, 1994), further militate against simple associations between alcohol consumption levels and neuropsychological deficits, either in social drinkers (Eckardt et al, 1998) or in chronic alcoholics (Mützell, 1991;Parsons and Nixon, 1986). In contrast to its lack of association with cognitive deficits, lifetime alcohol consumption showed a reasonable and predictable relationship to gait and balance in this study, even after we accounted for the effects of normal aging.…”

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Pattern of Motor and Cognitive Deficits in Detoxified Alcoholic Men

Sullivan

Rosenbloom

Pfefferbaum

2000

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Pattern of Motor and Cognitive Deficits in Detoxified Alcoholic Men

Sullivan

Rosenbloom

Pfefferbaum

2000

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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188

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“…We find that there is also a vulnerable group among girls who develop high consumption of alcohol, simultaneous drug abuse and criminality during their teens (S. Mutzell, 1991Mutzell, , 1994a.…”

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Brain damage and neuropsyochological impairment in female and male alcoholics and implications for their offspring

Mützell

1994

Early Child Development and Care

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Matched pairs of 40 male and 40 female alcoholic inpatients living in Stockholm were examined and found to fulfill the alcoholism criteria of DSM-III-R. They comprised 40 matched pairs of men and women consecutively admitted to the Karolinska Alcohol Clinic and staying at least one week for treatment. The examination included a general medical examination, a psychiatric and social history, blood tests, ECG, computed tomography of the brain and neuropsychological testing. The subjects' and their families' possibilities of creating a good upbringing environment and their own and their children's childhood were studied.The alcoholics and their offspring were followed from the registers of the child welfare committees, temperance boards, social service departments, the Social Insurance Office and the Medical Information System of the Medical Services Board of Stockholm County Council.The children of the female alcoholics had, during their childhood, more often had contact with an educational welfare officer, a psychologist or a physician for various problems and also had a significantly higher rate of registration in the children's welfare committee registers than children of male alcoholics. The male alcoholics more often came from broken homes. 29% of the female and 32% of the male alcoholics had been fostered by their biological mother alone or by grandparents until 16 years of age. 51% of the women and 39% of the men had an alcohol-abusing mother and father during childhood. Signs of social maladjustment and having been under the care of a child welfare committee were recorded in 32% and 24% respectively of the male alcoholics and 20% and 12% of the females.62% of the male alcoholics and 30% of the females showed cortical atrophy. Signs of neuropsychological impairment were present in 35% of the females but only 16% of the males.It is concluded that female and male alcoholics resemble each other and that they both have a disturbed childhood and that female alcoholics more often have an alcohol and drug-abusing parent, nervous problems in the parents, attempted suicide by a parent and serious schisms in the family than male alcoholics.

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Coping strategies in children of male alcoholic parents and men from the general population

Mützell

1994

Early Child Development and Care

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In a 15-year longitudinal-prospective examination of the subsequent life and development of parents and children of 211 male alcoholic inpatients (the probands) we compared them with a simple random sample of 200 men from Greater Stockholm (the controls) and their children. The group probands and the controls were then subdivided with respect to alcohol consumption and use of hepatotoxic drugs: (IA) controls with low or moderate alcohol consumption and no use of drugs (n= 169); (IB) controls with low or moderate alcohol consumption with use of drugs (n=31); (IIA) probands with use of alcohol but no drugs (n=171); (MB) probands with use of alcohol and drugs (n=40). Groups IB and IIB had more psychosocial problems than the men of the other groups. They had grown up in families with more abuse of alcohol and drugs, an alcohol-abusing father and mother and had taken up their parents' concomitant drug and alcohol abuse by parental influences. Coping strategies for one child from each of groups IA, IB, IIA and IIB were followed and described. There were differences in the social adjustment and the health status between the proband's children and the control's children. Social assistance was required to a greater extent by the proband groups and especially those from group IIB and the control children from group IB who were registered in the Temperance Register and the Child welfare authorities more often than the control children of group IA.

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Brain Damage in Alcoholics without Neuropsychological Impairment. A Population Study

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Pattern of Motor and Cognitive Deficits in Detoxified Alcoholic Men

Pattern of Motor and Cognitive Deficits in Detoxified Alcoholic Men

Brain damage and neuropsyochological impairment in female and male alcoholics and implications for their offspring

Coping strategies in children of male alcoholic parents and men from the general population

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