New forms of chronic alcoholic encephalopathies available for diagnosis by physicians of various specialties — therapists, pediatricians, neurologists, and psychoneurologists — are descirbed. Variants of symptomatic and syndromic forms of chronic alcoholic encephalopathies (the initial and the detailed manifestations) are described and their detailed clinical characteristics are given. This message targets a wide range of physicians at an early detection of persons predisposed to the alcohol dependence syndrome and hence at its prevention.