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© 1990 Medical Council on Alcohol

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THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON THE FEMALE BRAIN: A NEUROPATHOLOGICAL STUDY

CLIVE G. HARPER*,{dagger}, NATALIE A. SMITH* and JILLIAN J. KRIL{dagger},{ddagger}

*Department of Pathology, The University of Sydney Sydney 2006
{dagger}Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Missenden Rd, Camperdown 2050, Australia

{ddagger} Author for correspondence at Department of Pathology, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia

Received 8 August 1990; accepted 21 August 1990

This quantitative neuropathological study compared the brains of seventeen alcoholic females with twenty non-alcoholic female controls. There was a significant (P > 0.001) increase in the pericerebral space value (control 9.5; alcoholic 16.3) indicating shrinkage of the brain. Cerebral grey and white matter volumes were determined morphometrically. There was a significant decrease in the cerebral white matter volume (P > .02) in the alcoholics. The cerebral grey matter volume was unchanged. These changes parallel those described previously in male alcoholics. Further studies will be necessary to establish the relative severity of the brain damage in males and females.


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