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Progresses of brain imaging in patients with chronic alcohol dependence
XU Shili  CHEN Jun 

Cite this article as: Xu SL, Chen J. Progresses of brain imaging in patients with chronic alcohol dependence. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2020, 11(9): 813-816. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2020.09.021.


[Abstract] Alcohol is the most widely used addictive drug in the world and chronic alcohol dependence (CAD) has become a serious public health problem. CAD can lead to the double dependence of patients' psychology and body, resulting in multi system damage, especially the central nervous system, which is mainly manifested in brain structure damage, brain metabolism and functional abnormality. With the continuous development of modern neuroimaging technology, more and more imaging technology is used to objectively detect and quantify brain damage caused by alcohol dependence, which plays an important role in CAD diagnosis, treatment and prognosis evaluation. This paper reviews the progress of brain imaging in CAD patients from three aspects: structure, metabolism and function.
[Keywords] alcoholism；brain；structure；metabolize；function；brain imaging；magnetic resonance imaging

XU Shili Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China

CHEN Jun* Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China

*Correspondence to: Chen J, E-mail: whuchenjun@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2019-12-13
Accepted  2020-07-16
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2020.09.021
Cite this article as: Xu SL, Chen J. Progresses of brain imaging in patients with chronic alcohol dependence. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2020, 11(9): 813-816. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2020.09.021.

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