Intellectual functioning in alcoholics during six months' abstinence.

Page, Ronald D.; Schaub, Linda Hansens

doi:10.15288/jsa.1977.38.1240

Cited by 39 publications

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“…By the second week, however, recovery approached, but did not meet, the standardized norms for the tests in question. No further improvement was observed during the remainder of the 8 weeks in this study, nor up to 6 months in a follow-up study (Page & Schaub, 1977).…”

Section: Recoverability Of Cognitive Functioningcontrasting

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Cognitive impairment in chronic alcoholics: Some cause for optimism.

Goldman¹

1983

American Psychologist

125

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Even after they cease drinking, many alcoholics are impaired in their cognitive functioning. In recent years we have come to better appreciate the nature of these deficits and that they are more evident in some groups of alcoholics, particularly older alcoholics. An encouraging note comes from studies showing that considerable recovery of cognitive functioning occurs, most dramatically immediately after drinking cessation, and more slowly thereafter. Some functions may never recover. The implications of these findings for alcoholism treatment are just beginning to be investigated, and bridges between research endeavors and practical applications are being developed. New findings suggest that we may be able to reduce cognitive dysfunction and possibly enhance treatment outcome.

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Cognitive impairment in chronic alcoholics: Some cause for optimism.

Goldman¹

1983

American Psychologist

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“…Some improvement on a memory distractor task that utilized words as stimuli has been reported in older alcoholics over a nionthlong period of hospitalization (Cerniak & Ryback, 1976). Page and Schaub (1977) found that only one of five measures of neuropsychological functioning differed between groups of alcoholics tested after 1 week and 3 weeks of sobriety. These investigators found no significant differences betwen thc performsnce of alcoholics tested 3 weeks and 25 weeks after drinking.…”

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confidence: 92%

Recovery of visual-spatial learning and memory in chronic alcoholics

1981

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Administered the Memory‐for‐Designs Test and a verbal and Visuospatial paired associate learning test to separate groups of alcoholics (N = 32) 3 and 11 weeks abstinent from alcohol and to a matched control group (N = 16). Alcoholics were not impaired in verbal learning. Alcoholics 3 weeks abstinent performed significantly less well than controls on all nonverbal tasks and less well than 11‐weeks alcoholics on one nonverbal measure. No significant differences were found between 11‐week alcoholics and controls. The results suggest that some recovery of function may occur in alcoholics after 10 weeks of abstinence. The data also support the hypothesis of impaired right hemisphere in alcoholics.

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“…It must be noted that alcoholics do not improve to normal levels on all tasks. Some more traditional neuropsychological tasks do not reveal improvement to normal levels over test periods of 1 month (Goldman, Whitman, Rosenbaum, & VandeVusse, 1978), 2 months (Tarter & Jones, 1971), 25 weeks (Page & Schaub, 1977), or even 1 year (Long & McLachlan, 1974). Recent work in our laboratories has, however, strongly suggested that these irreversible deficits occur primarily in older alcoholics (over approximately age 40), whereas younger alcoholics recover from most deficits regardless of the length of their drinking history (Goldman, in press).…”

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confidence: 99%