Patent ID: 7700074
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: A23L,A23V,A61B,A61K,G01N,G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for diagnosing alcoholism disease in a human, comprising: examining molecular alterations in membrane phospholipid and high-energy phosphate metabolism in a human brain with a medical imaging process, wherein the medical imaging process is a multinuclear magnetic resonance process based on comparison of intensities obtained from relevant examining molecular alterations in synaptic/transport vesicles with the medical imaging process; examining molecular alternations in phosphorylated proteins with the medical imaging process; examining molecular alterations in metabolites with N-acetyl moieties and gangliosides are examined with the medical imaging process; and determining with the plurality of examined molecular alterations whether a conclusion of cognitively impaired chronic alcoholism in the human is suggested if the examined molecular alterations indicate increased neural membrane repair mechanisms which are failing including an increase in phosphomonoesters PME(s-τ