Gender Differences in Neurocognitive Functioning Among Alcohol‐Dependent Russian Patients

Flannery, Barbara; Fishbein, Diana H.; Krupitsky, Evgeny; Langevin, Doris J.; Verbitskaya, E.; Bland, Cynthia; Bolla, Karen I.; Egorova, Valentina Y.; Bushara, Natalia; Tsoy, Marina; Zvartau, Edwin

doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00372.x

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“…Our data did not confirm the findings of Flannery et al (2007), who found that women with AD experienced more sensitivity to interference in the Stroop task than men with AD and healthy controls. Van der Elst et al (2006) found that healthy women were less sensitive to interference than men.…”

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“…However, female performance was more strongly impacted than male performance on tests of perceptual and visual planning and processing, working memory, and motor control, including sensitivity to interference (Stroop test) (Flannery et al, 2007). Alarcon, Nalpas, Pelletier, and Perney (2015) observed no gender differences in scores on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in hospitalized alcohol-dependent patients aged 49.9 ± 9.2 years.…”

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Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in Older Alcohol-Dependent Patients

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Kist

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Substance Use & Misuse

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Background: Alcohol dependence is associated with impairments in cognition, especially in later life. Previous studies suggest that excessive drinking has more negative impact on cognition in women than in men. Objectives: In this study, differences in cognition between male and female older, alcoholdependent patients were examined. Method: Older alcohol-dependent inpatients (N = 164, 62.2% men, mean age 62.6 ± 6.4) underwent neuropsychological tests of sensitivity to interference, mental flexibility, and visual processing. Results: No gender differences were found in age, educational level, estimated premorbid verbal intelligence, and sensitivity to interference. Duration of alcohol dependence was longer for men than for women. Men performed better than women on visual processing, and women better than men on mental flexibility. The superior mental flexibility of women remained significant after adjustment for duration of alcohol dependence. Conclusions/Importance: Older alcohol-dependent inpatients performed below average on cognitive tasks, which suggests that long-term excessive alcohol use negatively affects cognition. Our study does not demonstrate more severe cognitive impairment in women than in men.

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Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in Older Alcohol-Dependent Patients

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Kist

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Substance Use & Misuse

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“…Because other studies have found that women and men respond differently to medications for AD (Baros et al, 2008;Flannery et al, 2007;Garbutt et al, 2005;Nichol et al, 2007;O'Malley et al, 2007) in conjunction with the facts that only one woman was randomized to the control group, and only three women completed the trial, the following results are based on the 17 men who completed the study.…”

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A Pilot Trial of the Alpha‐1 Adrenergic Antagonist, Prazosin, for Alcohol Dependence

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Meredith

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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“…In this task, only location mattered, not order of recall. In another variation of the location memory task, participants are asked to associate a location with a specific pattern and they then have to remember where a centrally presented pattern was presented (Flannery et al, 2007). This requirement to recall the pattern as well as the location adds a level of complexity to the task that distinguishes it from a pure location task.…”

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Sex differences in visual-spatial working memory: A meta-analysis

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Visual-spatial working memory measures are widely used in clinical and experimental settings. Furthermore, it has been argued that the male advantage in spatial abilities can be explained by a sex difference in visual-spatial working memory. Therefore, sex differences in visual-spatial working memory have important implication for research, theory, and practice, but they have yet to be quantified. The present metaanalysis quantified the magnitude of sex differences in visualspatial working memory and examined variables that might moderate them. The analysis used a set of 180 effect sizes from healthy males and females drawn from 98 samples ranging in mean age from 3 to 86 years. Multilevel meta-analysis was used on the overall data set to account for nonindependent effect sizes. The data also were analyzed in separate task subgroups by means of multilevel and mixed-effects models. Results showed a small but significant male advantage (mean d = 0.155, 95 % confidence interval = 0.087-0.223). All the tasks produced a male advantage, except for memory for location, where a female advantage emerged. Age of the participants was a significant moderator, indicating that sex differences in visual-spatial working memory appeared first in the 13-17 years age group. Removing memory for location tasks from the sample affected the pattern of significant moderators. The present results indicate a male advantage in visual-spatial working memory, although age and specific task modulate the magnitude and direction of the effects. Implications for clinical applications, cognitive model building, and experimental research are discussed.

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Gender Differences in Neurocognitive Functioning Among Alcohol‐Dependent Russian Patients

Abstract: The data support and extend prior research demonstrating a more deleterious impact of alcohol dependence on female alcoholic subjects' cognitive functioning compared with male alcoholic subjects. Several theories are offered to account for gender differences in neurocognitive performance.

Cited by 40 publications

References 60 publications

Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in Older Alcohol-Dependent Patients

Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in Older Alcohol-Dependent Patients

A Pilot Trial of the Alpha‐1 Adrenergic Antagonist, Prazosin, for Alcohol Dependence

Sex differences in visual-spatial working memory: A meta-analysis

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