Alcohol Abuse, Violence, and Neurological Impairment
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Vol. 6 (4) , 411-422
- https://doi.org/10.1177/088626091006004001
Abstract
The relationship between the frequency and severity of violence and three parameters of alcohol abuse (acuteness, chronicity, and age of onset) was examined retrospectively in a sample of forensic psychiatric patients. Subjects were further compared with respect to electroencephalographic characteristics. Acuteness and chronicity of alcohol abuse were found to be related to severity but not to frequency of violence. Acute alcohol abusers appeared to suffer from more severe central nervous system impairment than did nonabusers. Age of onset of alcohol abuse was found to have little impact on the variables examined. Results are discussed in the framework of empirically derived typologies of psychopathology.Keywords
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