Objective; The extent to uhich cerebral dysfunction in alcoholics is related to the direct
effects of alcohol in the brain rather than to indirect mechanisms and/or alcohol withdrawal
remains unclear. The purpose of this study uvas to evaluate uhether healthy alcoholics tvith
no evidence of alcohol-associated complications shoued changes in brain glucose
metabolism. Method: Positron emission tomography and/* Fl-fluorodeoxyglucose were used
to measure regional brain metabolism. The study group consisted of 22 normal, healthy …