Personality, Cognitive, and Neuropsychological Correlates of Harmful Alcohol Consumption: A Cross‐National Comparison of Clinical Samples

Short‐Term Neuropsychological Recovery in Clients with Substance Use Disorders

“…The magnitude of increases in the latent ability means, however, suggested recovery of modest clinical significance in executive functioning, verbal processing speed, and verbal ability domains, with a medium effect size recovery in the memory domain. With 50% or more of clients presenting for treatment with some extent of neuropsychological impairment (Loberg and Miller, 1986;Meek et al, 1989;Morgenstern and Bates, 1999;O'Malley et al, 1992) and the observation that spontaneous, "timedependent" cognitive recovery from alcohol and other drug use disorders may be limited in the short term, the question remains as to whether more complex topics and interventions that require abstraction abilities or rapid information processing should be introduced as treatment progresses across the first 1 to 2 months. This is an important question in light of the current trend of shorter treatment durations.…”

Is There Cognitive Impairment in Clinically ‘Healthy’ Abstinent Alcohol Dependence?

“…The difference seen in the full scale IQ between the groups was driven by lower scores on the digit symbol and vocabulary tasks in the alcohol-dependent group. We did not see a significant difference in the block design that has been widely reported to be impaired in alcohol dependence, and it was chosen for this purpose (Loberg and Miller, 1986). The reason for this might be that the population we studied is healthier than those previously described.…”

Comorbidity implications in brain disease: Neuronal substrates of symptom profiles

“…Cognitive impairments are certainly not limited to schizophrenia, a major instance of comorbid overlap is offered by markedly impaired cognitive abilities (Loberg and Miller, 1986;Grant I, 1987;Bolla et al, 2000;Duka et al, 2003), as expressed by problems in visuospatial abstracting, problemsolving, planning and organisation, learning new concepts/notions, flexibility in cognition, selective attention, abstract thinking and various specialized (more-or-less) memory skills, many of these reflecting executive functions (Ardila et al, 1991;Glen et al, 1988;Hambridge, 1990;Waugh et al, 1989; but see also Palomo et al, 2004). These deficits in cognitive functioning are associated with: limited treatment participation, elevated 'drop-out' rates, less after-care utilization and more post-treatment unemployment (Gregson and Taylor, 1977;Donovan et al, 1984;Mackenzie et al, 1987;Teichner et al, 2002), and these individuals are less likely to obtain treatment benefits compared to unimpaired individuals, new to failure to acquire and integrate new information (Leber et al, 1985;Teichner et al, 2001;Aharonvich et al, 2003).…”