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Correlation of Behavior with Electroencephalographic Studies in Alcoholism

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Electroencephalographic studies of patients suffering from alcoholism have revealed, in over one thousand cases studied, a significant correlation between abnormal behavior patterns and electroencephalographic patterns. Some behavior patterns are continuous but many are episodic. Some are the product of long continued abuse of alcohol but many stem from the toxic effects of alcohol on previously damaged brains, either by trauma or other etiologic agents. Some, of course, are alcoholic withdrawal syndromes. Some result from the synergistic effect of alcohol and other agents, usually drugs.

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  1. School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2010 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 607, Los Angeles, CA, 90057, USA

    George N. Thompson

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  1. Académie de Paris, Université René Descartes, Paris, France

    Pierre Pichot (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee) (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee)

  2. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Berner (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings), Rainer Wolf  & Kenneth Thau (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings),  & 

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Thompson, G.N. (1985). Correlation of Behavior with Electroencephalographic Studies in Alcoholism. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2365-5_17

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2365-5_17

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