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Alcohol may have short-term effects on the CNS (intoxication and withdrawal) or long-term effects (alcoholism, alcoholic Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and alcoholic dementia). The properties of each of these five disease states associated with alcohol use are described below.
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Anderson, R.M. (1994). Alcohol. In: Practitioner’s Guide to Clinical Neuropsychology. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2480-9_48
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