Alcoholic cerebellar disease and seizures.

Forty-eight chronic alcoholic patients with a clinical picture consistent with midline cerebellar disease were evaluated regarding alcohol related seizures. These seizures were noted in about 15% of this patient group. This seizure incidence approximates that in the severely alcoholic hospitalized population. Thus, the midline cerebellar degeneration does not appear to influence the seizure diathesis in the chronic alcoholic.