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Addiction and Brain Damage (Hardcover)
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Addiction and Brain Damage (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Addictions
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Originally published in 1980, recent research had produced new
insights into how, at the biochemical level, alcohol and other
drugs of abuse can impair metabolic and neuropsychiatric functions.
Epidemiological studies were also demonstrating that even moderate
drinking or drug abuse can produce significant brain damage. This
book draws together the latest biochemical, physiological and
clinical research on these topics at the time. The initial chapters
discuss how alcohol can interfere with various functions: the
adaptability of metabolic processes as governed by the ability of
the liver to synthesise new enzymes, cell membrane transport,
nervous transmission and the transport of nutrients into the brain.
It is suggested that opiates, and possibly alcohol, may affect the
endorphin system by blocking the uptake of specific amino acids.
The second half of the book reports clinical investigations using
biochemical studies, psychological tests, EEG investigations and
Computerised Axial Tomography (CAT) scanning. It gives the first
report of a long-term study by Lishman and co-workers using an
improved tomography technique to assess brain damage in alcoholics.
These studies give convincing evidence that heavy drinking, even at
socially-acceptable levels, can cause serious brain damage in
vulnerable people.
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