Alcohol-related brain damage: report from a Medical Council on Alcohol Symposium, June 2010.

نویسندگان

  • A D Thomson
  • I Guerrini
  • D Bell
  • C Drummond
  • T Duka
  • M Field
  • M Kopelman
  • A Lingford-Hughes
  • I Smith
  • K Wilson
  • E J Marshall
چکیده

Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Rockefeller Building, University College London, 21 University Street, London, UK, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK, Bexley Substance Misuse Service, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, Imperial College London, UK and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, Addictions Department, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, 4 Windsor Walk, London SE5 8BB, UK, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, UK, Academic Unit of Neuropsychiatry, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, 3rd Floor, Adamson Centre, South Wing Block 8, St Thomas’s Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH, UK, Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Centre for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, NIHR Comprehensive Local Research Network, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Scotland and South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK *Corresponding author: Tel: +44-203-228-2345; Fax: +44-203-228-2349; E-mail: [email protected]

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Alcohol and alcoholism

دوره 47 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012