tailieunhanh - Studying the brain’s mri imaging, delusion and hallucination symptoms in patients with alcohol dependence

Objectives: To study the damage of the alcoholic brain on MRI films and the relationship between brain injury with symptoms of delusion and hallucination. Subjects and methods: 30 alcoholic patients with delusion and hallucination. A cross-sectional prospective study described each specific case on 30 patients who are alcoholics. | Journal of military pharmaco-medicine n08-2017 STUDYING THE BRAIN’S MRI IMAGING, DELUSION AND HALLUCINATION SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE Nguyen Huu Thang*; Bui Quang Huy**; Nguyen Sinh Phuc** SUMMARY Objectives: To study the damage of the alcoholic brain on MRI films and the relationship between brain injury with symptoms of delusion and hallucination. Subjects and methods: 30 alcoholic patients with delusion and hallucination. A cross-sectional prospective study described each specific case on 30 patients who are alcoholics. Results: of alcohol-dependent patients had brain lesions on MRI films. Parietal lobe was the most vulnerable region of brain, accounted for . The most common type of injury was the widening gap between two parietal lobes, accounted for and myelin degeneration in the parietal lobes (). The delusions and hallucinations in alcoholic patients could not be associated with brain atrophy and degeneration of myelin in the brain. Conclusion: Most of patients have brain lesions on MRI, psychotic symptoms can not be associated with brain lesions. * Keywords: Delusion; Hallucination; Alcohol dependence; MRI image. INTRODUCTION Alcoholism is a social problem, which is about 1 - 10% of the population. The alcoholics usually have brain lesions and some symptoms of mental disorders such as delusions and hallucinations. Nowadays, in Vietnam, there has not been any clear researches about brain lesions and the relation among brain lesions, hallucinations and delusions in alcoholic patients. Therefore, this research aims: To comment brain lesions on MRI films of the alcoholic and relation among brain lesions, hallucinations and delusions. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 1. Subjects. 30 patients who were diagnosed as alcoholic. They also suffered from the hallucinations and delusions. They were treated in 103 Hospital from 4 - 2013 to 1 - 2016. All of the patients were mentally examined and underwent MRI of the brain. 2. .