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Memory and ventricular size in alcoholics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

C. Acker,
R. R. Jacobson and
W. A. Lishman
C. Acker
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London
R. R. Jacobson
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London
W. A. Lishman*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Professor W. A. Lishman, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
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The relationship between memory performance and CT scan measures of ventricular size was investigated in a sample of 39 chronic alcoholics and 39 controls. Measures of verbal, non-verbal, recognition and recall memory were derived from the tests administered and were viewed in relation to the lateral ventricle and third ventricular size measurements. The results showed that the memory performance of male alcoholics was significantly related to measures of third ventricular size, but probably not to measures of the lateral ventricles. An association between verbal memory performance and CT scan measures was found in the male controls.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , May 1987, pp. 343 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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