“…Related behavioural evidence pointing towards frontal damage as a factor in both diseases includes personality changes (Bózzola, Gorelick & Freels, 1992;Chatterjee et al, 1992;Oscar-Berman et al, 1997;Moselhy, Georgiou & Kahn, 2001;Talassi et al, 2007;Echeburúa, De Medina & Aizpiri, 2007;Ball et al, 2010), disinhibition and impulsivity (Chen et al, 2007;Ball et al, 2008;Crews & Boettiger, 2009;Dick et al, 2010;Bidzan, Bidzan & Pąchalska, 2012;Finger et al, 2017), confabulation (Kern et al, 1992Brun & Andersson, 2001;Tallberg & Almkvist, 2001;Attali et al, 2009;Maurage et al, 2011;Rensen et al, 2015) and a noticeable tendency towards perseverative behaviour. This last attribute is readily apparent in individuals with AD (Bayles et al, 2004;Serna, Pigot & Rialle, 2007;Pekkala et al, 2008;Kaufman, 2015;De Lucia, Grossi & Trojano, 2015), while studies in adult and adolescent rodents chronically exposed to ethanol (but given a nutritionally adequate diet) point towards a similar pattern of behavioural and neurological deficit Obernier et al, 2002;Crews & Nixon, 2009;Kroener et al, 2012;Acheson et al, 2013;Sullivan & Pfefferbaum, 2014;Badanich et al, 2016), confirming findings in humans (Giancola, Peterson & Pihl, 1993;Oscar-Berman et al, 1997;Fadda & Rossetti, 1998;Ratti et al, 2002;Dirksen et al, 2006;Oscar Berman, 2009).…”