Cognitive impairment in Aboriginal people with heavy episodic patterns of alcohol use

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 909-915

  Cairney, Sheree ^a   Clough, Alan ^a   Jaragba, Muriel ^c   Maruff, Paul ^b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b CogState Ltd ^*  (Australia)

^c Angurugu Health Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Alcohol; Cognitive; Cultural assessment; Episodic; Memory

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INTERVIEW; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WELLBEING; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS;

EID: 34249074423     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01840.x     Document Type: Article

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