The frontal assessment battery (FAB) reveals neurocognitive dysfunction in substance-dependent individuals in distinct executive domains: Abstract reasoning, motor programming, and cognitive flexibility

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 875-881

  Cunha, Paulo Jannuzzi ^a   Nicastri, Sergio ^a   de Andrade, Arthur Guerra ^a   Bolla, Karen I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cannabis; Cocaine; Neuropsychology; Prefrontal cortex; Substance use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL ASSESSMENT BATTERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954312140     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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