Committee on Problems of Alcohol A Report of Its Activities From 1949 to 1955, the Research Work It Has Supported and the Place of This Work in the Field of Alcoholism (1956) / Chapter Skim
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III. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ASPECTS OF ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
III. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ASPECTS OF ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
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It is now found that if this piece of brain is artificially stimulated, its metabolic;rate rises sharply, and it can then be observed that alcohol levels equivalent to those found in moderate intoxication will markedly reduce this rise in metabolism.
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of the University of Utah College of Medicine, with the aid of a grant from the Committee on Problems of Alcohol, has been studying the effect of the chrpnic administration of alcohol upon the amount of electrical stimulation needed to produce.a convulsion in the rat. He has found that the amount of electric current needed was at first much greater in the alcohol-fed rat than in the normal rat, but this difference dropped gradually back to the normal level after about two weeks of daily convulsions and constant alcohol intake.
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. He also' studied the brain wave changes vMch occurred : when cats were studied at various blood alcohol levels and found ithe expected gradual depression of .brain function.
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