… people with excessive drinking patterns, and have reported associated problems with the early
… of a screening tool for the assessment of cognitive impairment in excessive alcohol users. …

… To help test the validity of the clinical diagnosis of alcohol abuse, we … alcohol abuse and
3.7% with questionable alcohol abuse. Previous population-based estimates of alcohol abuse in …

… cognitive deficits in patients with history of alcohol use disorders, through the development
of a specific screening … Neuropsychological consequences of alcohol and drug abuse on …

… injury, poor memory and visuospatial integration, lower IQ, exposure to physical abuse. …
brief cognitive screening instrument for cognitive dysfunction in persons with alcohol dependence…

… a brief screening instrument in identifying cognitive impairment (… in the McLean Hospital
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment … dependence disorder, (c) abstinence from all drugs of abuse …

… of general cognitive impairment, we classified 30 (36%) of the 84 patients assessed as impaired;
… Although alcohol abuse or dependence was not an exclusion criterion for admission to …

… If accounting for and addressing the presence of cognitive deficits among substance-abusing
patients involves, as a first step, identifying those with neuropsychological …

… abusers. This article summarizes research on cognitive deficits associated with common drugs
of abuse, … Thus, cognitive deterioration among alcohol abusing patients may reflect milder …

… abstinence of opioid abuse 29. Cognitive deficits in chronic substance abuse are clinically
… As our results show, screenings for cognitive impairment can be validly interpreted in every …

… domains of assessment: cognitive screening, memory, executive function, intelligence and
… the heterogeneous neurocognitive manifestations of alcohol abuse. However, other authors …