CASE STUDY

Case Study

Case Study

1) Women become more intoxicated than men after drinking the same amount of alcohol, even when differences in body weight are taken into account. This is because women's bodies have proportionately less water than men's bodies.

Silvia also affected badly by the use of alcohol. Because alcohol mixes with body water, a given amount of alcohol becomes more highly concentrated in a woman's body than in a man's. That is why the recommended drinking limit for women is lower than for men. (See Question 13 for recommended limits.)

In addition, chronic alcohol abuse takes a heavier physical toll on women than on men. Alcohol dependence and related medical problems, such as brain and liver damage, progress more rapidly in women than in men.

2) The various techniques to visually represent the nervous system that have been developed over the past few decades generally fall into two broad categories, structural and functional imaging approaches. Structural neuroimaging techniques, such as computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and an MRI subtype known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), illustrate the anatomy of the nervous system. In alcohol research, these approaches are ideally suited for demonstrating anatomical changes that alcohol causes in the nervous system.

In contrast, functional neuroimaging procedures - such as PET, functional MRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), and single photon emission computerized tomography - show the metabolic and physiologic processes of the nervous system in action. These imaging procedures are preferable for detecting alcohol-induced metabolic and physiologic alterations in the brain. Because each procedure has its strengths and weaknesses in the evaluation of people with alcoholism, clinicians and investigators must carefully consider the questions they want to address before deciding on the most appropriate approach.

3) As Silvia using alcohol because of stress so her treatement is quite easy.The cerebellum, an area of ...