Cognitive impairments in sober alcoholics: Performance on selective and divided attention tasks

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-286

  Tedstone, Donna ^a   Coyle, Kieran ^b  

^a Saolta University Health Care Group   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcoholism; Attention; Cognition; Impairments; Performance

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SAMPLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 3342964501     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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