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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 58, 期 12, 页码 974-980出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.05.038
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multislice H-1-MRSI; alcohol dependence; abstinence; metabolite alterations; cerebellum; frontal lobe
Background: This study focused on metabolic brain alterations in recently detoxified alcohol-dependent patients (SI) and their possible reversibility after 3 (S2) and 6 months (S3) of abstinence. Methods: Thirty-three alcohol-dependent patients and 30 healthy control subjects were studied with multislice proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (echo time = 135 msec at 1.5 T at three time points). Results: In the patient group, we found that choline-containing compounds (Ch) in three frontal and cerebellar subregions at S1 were,differences did not reach significance but showed a trend toward significantly below normal, whereas N-acetyl asparlate (AAA) below-normal values infrontal white matter. Abstinent patients showed a significant increase of Ch in all subregions at S2. At S3, no further significant metabolite changes in abstinent patients compared with S2 could be detected. No significant increase of NAA could be detected at follow-up. Conclusions. The increase of the Ch signal in the follow-up measurement after 3 months in abstinent alcohol-dependent patients supports the hypotheses of an alcohol- or alcohol detoxification-induced altered cerebral metabolism of lipids in membranes or myelin, which seems to be reversible with duration of alcohol abstinence.
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