Decision-making deficits in alcohol-dependent patients with and without comorbid personality disorder

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1670-1677

  Dom, Geert ^a   De Wilde, Bieke ^a   Hulstijn, Wouter ^b   Van Den Brink, Wim ^c   Sabbe, Bernard ^b  

^a Psychiatric Centre Alexian Brothers   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR ADDICTION RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol Dependence; Decision Making; Iowa Gambling Task; Personality Disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); ETHANOL; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 33749056685     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00202.x     Document Type: Article

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