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The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

Elvin Morton Jellinek

Jellinek, Elvin Morton

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Huberman Lab

Huberman mentioned that biophysicist E.M.Jelinek wrote The Disease Concept of Alcoholism in the 1950s60s, which introduced the Jelinek Curve used to illustrate stages of alcohol dependence.

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There was a - I think he was a biophysicist. E.M. Jelinek. He was at Stanford for a bit at the end of his career. He had done a lot of research on alcoholism and wrote a book in the 50s or 60s called...

— Episode: Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavio...

Episode: Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addict...

Huberman mentioned that biophysicist E.M.Jelinek wrote The Disease Concept of Alcoholism in the 1950s60s, which introduced the Jelinek Curve used to illustrate stages of alcohol dependence.

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There was a - I think he was a biophysicist. E.M. Jelinek. He was at Stanford for a bit at the end of his career. He had done a lot of research on alcoholism and wrote a book in the 50s or 60s called The Disease Concept of Alcoholism. And out of that book, there was a curve, and you can look this up. It's called The Jelinek Curve.

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