THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF BRAIN DAMAGE FROM ALCOHOLISM
FREDERICK LEMERE M. D.1
1 The Shadel Sanitarium and department of psychiatry of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash.
1. Prolonged heavy drinking can produce permanent brain damage.
2. This brain damage is responsible, in many cases, for the permanent loss of control over alcohol that is pathognomonic of alcoholism.
