Recoverability of psychological functioning following alcohol abuse: Lateralization effects.

Ellenberg, Leah; Rosenbaum, Gerald; Goldman, Mark S.; Whitman, R. Douglas

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.48.4.503

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“…Studies using various kinds of laboratory experimental measures of memory (e.g. Ellenberg, Rosenbaum, Goldman & Whitman, 1980) fairly consistently demonstrate memory/learning difficulties which endure beyond detoxification (see Butters & Granholm, 1987, o r Ellis & Oscar-Berman, 1989, for reviews). In parallel with the findings for non-memory tasks mentioned above, deficits appear more consistently for non-verbal than verbal tasks, but at times deficits are found for verbal material (e.g.…”

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Intellectual impairment among recently abstinent alcohol abusers

O’Mahony¹,

Doherty²

1996

British J Clinic Psychol

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Two samples of adequately detoxified hospital-treated alcohol abusers were neuropsychologically assessed for alcohol-related cognitive impairment. Both groups manifested the commonly found impairments on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (N = 50) and the Revised Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (N = 44). In addition, an almost identical pattern of substantial impairment was found when both groups were examined by Russell's (1975, 1988) version of the logical memory and visual reproduction subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale. A clear pattern of memory impairment for both verbal and non-verbal memory was found.

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Intellectual impairment among recently abstinent alcohol abusers

O’Mahony¹,

Doherty²

1996

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…When visuospatial and verbal learning were compared in these subjects on tasks equated for difficulty level, Ellenberg, Rosenbaum, Goldman, and Whitman (1980) discovered that paired-associate verbal learning had recovered by Day 15, but visuospatial learning still was impaired by Day 25, particularly in older alcoholics. Those subjects with a drinking history of 12 years or more showed little recovery of visuospatial function over 1 month post-detoxification and showed error scores comparable to those obtained by Stark (1961) in patients with right hemisphere brain lesions.…”

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The alcohol paradox: A psychological model

Rosenbaum

1995

J. Clin. Psychol.

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The paradoxical continuation of excessive drinking by chronic alcoholics despite extremely aversive personal deterioration is addressed by a two‐factor theory. The theory regards the increasing stereotypy of alcohol‐related behaviors as a function of: (a) primary neuropsychological impairments that result from alcohol abuse and (b) secondary fears of catastrophic failure attendant upon brain dysfunction, which leads to acquired aversions to situations that require adaptive behaviors. A schematic quantitative model of this formulation is presented that may be useful to practicing psychologists in explaining perserverative behavior in a variety of brain syndromes.

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“…Sharp et al Offprint requests to: S.L. Schandler * Portions of this paper were presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiologacal Research, October, 1985, Houston, USA (1977, Ellenberg et al (1980), andLeber et al (1981) found that as length of abstinence increased, detoxified alcoholics improved in verbal abilities but visuospatial problems remained. In the Cala et al (1978) investigation of chronic heavy drinkers, no significant correlation was found between degree of tomographically evidenced cerebral atrophy and total WAIS intelligence scores or tests of dominant hemisphere function.…”

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Event-related brain potentials in intoxicated and detoxified alcoholics during visuospatial learning

Schandler

Cohen

McArthur³

1988

Psychopharmacology

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Event-related potentials and visuospatial learning performance were examined to understand the effects of chronic alcohol use on complex information processing. A total of 18 alcoholic male in-patients in an alcohol treatment program served as participants. Nine persons were seen at time of admission to the program while intoxicated (mean BAC = 18.0 mg/dl). The second group of nine persons was seen detoxified after 4 weeks in the treatment program. Learning consisted of a paired-associate paradigm requiring participants to learn the distinct spatial positions of six, randomly presented "nonsense" shapes. The visuospatial learning performance of the intoxicated alcoholics was superior to that of the detoxified alcoholics. Evaluation of event-related potentials during the visuospatial learning task indicated that while both groups displayed greater right hemisphere amplitudes of P3, P2, N1, and N2-P3 components, the amplitudes of the latter three components were significantly greater in the intoxicated alcoholics. The overall results suggest that compared to the intoxicated alcoholic, the detoxified alcoholic may suffer a disruption in attentional mechanisms related to visuospatial information processing, providing support for a theory that alcohol ingestion serves to balance information processing in the chronic alcoholic.

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Recoverability of psychological functioning following alcohol abuse: Lateralization effects.

Cited by 76 publications

References 24 publications

Intellectual impairment among recently abstinent alcohol abusers

Intellectual impairment among recently abstinent alcohol abusers

The alcohol paradox: A psychological model

Event-related brain potentials in intoxicated and detoxified alcoholics during visuospatial learning

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