The frontal lobe hypothesis: Impairment of executive cognitive functions in chronic alcohol in-patients

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 21-28

  Zorko, Maja ^a   Marušič, Andrej ^a   Čebašek Travnik, Zdenka ^b   Bucik, Valentin ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence syndrome; Executive cognitive functions; Frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

EID: 3042524556     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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