Cognitive impairments in alcohol-dependent subjects

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Bernardin, Florent ^a,b   Maheut Bosser, Anne ^a   Paille, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Brain atrophy; Cognitive impairments; Cognitive remediation therapy; Implicit cognition; Inhibition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACAMPROSATE; NALTREXONE;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REMEDIATION THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAMMILLARY BODY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SHORT SURVEY; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84904467399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00078     Document Type: Short Survey

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