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Features:<ref>http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ycdip/article/S0968-6053(07)00035-X/abstract</ref>
Features:<ref>http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ycdip/article/S0968-6053(07)00035-X/abstract</ref>
*Morel's laminar sclerosis = spongy degeneration and gliosis of the cerebral cortex<ref>URL: [http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=114939 http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=114939]. Accessed on: 22 September 2010.</ref> usu. prominent in the third layer of the cortex (outer pyramidal layer) and especially in the lateral-frontal cortex.<ref name=pmid15760886>{{cite journal |author=Johkura K, Naito M, Naka T |title=Cortical involvement in Marchiafava-Bignami disease |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=670–3 |year=2005 |month=March |pmid=15760886 |doi= |url=http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/26/3/670}}</ref>  
*Morel's laminar sclerosis = spongy degeneration and gliosis of the cerebral cortex<ref>URL: [http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=114939 http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=114939]. Accessed on: 22 September 2010.</ref> usu. prominent in the third layer of the cortex (outer pyramidal layer) and especially in the lateral-frontal cortex.<ref name=pmid15760886>{{cite journal |author=Johkura K, Naito M, Naka T |title=Cortical involvement in Marchiafava-Bignami disease |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=670–3 |year=2005 |month=March |pmid=15760886 |doi= |url=http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/26/3/670}}</ref>  
*Central pontine myelinolysis.
*Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM).<ref name=pmid21085565>{{cite journal |author=Campbell MC |title=Hyponatremia and central pontine myelinolysis as a result of beer potomania: a case report |journal=Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages= |year=2010 |pmid=21085565 |pmc=2983455 |doi=10.4088/PCC.09l00936ecr |url=}}</ref>
**Just what it sound like - myelin loss in the central pons.
**Classically associated with rapid correction of hyponatremia.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bernsen HJ, Prick MJ |title=Improvement of central pontine myelinolysis as demonstrated by repeated magnetic resonance imaging in a patient without evidence of hyponatremia |journal=Acta Neurol Belg |volume=99 |issue=3 |pages=189–93 |year=1999 |month=September |pmid=10544728 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Mammillary body shrinkage.<ref name=pmid8947329>{{cite journal |author=Shear PK, Sullivan EV, Lane B, Pfefferbaum A |title=Mammillary body and cerebellar shrinkage in chronic alcoholics with and without amnesia |journal=Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. |volume=20 |issue=8 |pages=1489-95 |year=1996 |month=November |pmid=8947329 |doi= |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=0145-6008&date=1996&volume=20&issue=8&spage=1489}}</ref>
*Mammillary body shrinkage.<ref name=pmid8947329>{{cite journal |author=Shear PK, Sullivan EV, Lane B, Pfefferbaum A |title=Mammillary body and cerebellar shrinkage in chronic alcoholics with and without amnesia |journal=Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. |volume=20 |issue=8 |pages=1489-95 |year=1996 |month=November |pmid=8947329 |doi= |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=0145-6008&date=1996&volume=20&issue=8&spage=1489}}</ref>
*Anterior cerebellar vermis atrophy; weak finding - as also age-related.<ref name=pmid3478969>{{cite journal |author=Torvik A |title=Brain lesions in alcoholics: neuropathological observations |journal=Acta Med. Scand. Suppl. |volume=717 |issue= |pages=47–54 |year=1987 |pmid=3478969 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Anterior cerebellar vermis atrophy; weak finding - as also age-related.<ref name=pmid3478969>{{cite journal |author=Torvik A |title=Brain lesions in alcoholics: neuropathological observations |journal=Acta Med. Scand. Suppl. |volume=717 |issue= |pages=47–54 |year=1987 |pmid=3478969 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
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