Alcohol abuse continues to be a major problem in our contemporary society. Alcohol remains the most harmful and abused drug. Alcoholism affects both sexes, spares no race, colour, or religious group, and is seen in all ages from preadolescent to the elderly. Alcoholism and alcohol related illnesses are among the top medical and public health problems.
The neurological complications of alcoholism are readily seen in both the outpatient and the hospital setting on both medical and surgical services. Ethanol can affect the nervous system through a variety of ways including direct neurotoxic effects of ethanol or its metabolites, especially among protein and lipids of neuronal membranes , nutritional deficiencies , metabolic disturbances(especially through liver damage). Not every alcoholic develops neurological complications, and why one neurological syndrome occurs in one patient and…
