Cognitive dysfunction in the prediction of relapse in alcoholics.

Cognitive Dysfunction in Alcohol Withdrawal

“…There is evidence that the severity and type of cognitive deficit correlate with the natural history and prognosis [33][34][35], which we did not confirm. Although the dropouts in our study, due mainly to relapse, exhibited rather greater dysfunction than ab stainers, the differences were nonsignificant, except in two verbal tests.…”

Executive Dysfunction and Clinical Outcome in Chronic Alcoholics

“…We cannot neglect these economic and social situations because they could influence occupational outcome in alcoholics, although we did not notice any patient whose occupation was directly affected by these socioeconomic problems. We should also note that other factors that have been known to affect outcome in alcoholism include typology, motivation for abstinence, complications of depression or physical illness, and general psychosocial dysfunction (Abbott and Gregson, 1981;Morgenstern and Bates, 1999). Another weakness is that this study regarded part-time employment as occupation (Ϫ).…”

“…Thus, the additional question emerges of whether neurocognitive function in alcoholics predicts alcohol-specific outcome, nonspecific outcome, both, or neither. On one hand, some researchers have documented a relationship between cognitive deficits and alcoholspecific behavior, such as amount of alcohol consumed (Abbott and Gregson, 1981;O'Leary et al, 1979;Parsons et al, 1990). On the other hand, other investigators have reported that cognitive impairment relates more closely to alcohol-nonspecific outcome (occupation) than alcoholspecific outcome (drinking) (Alterman et al, 1990;Donovan et al, 1984;Kato, 1996).…”

Patient predictors of alcohol treatment outcome: A systematic review

“…Notes to Table1: Letters represent the following studies: a, Abbott and Gregson (1981); b, Allsop, Saunders, and Phillips (2000); c, Bottlender and Soyka (2005); d, Breslin et al (1997); e, Burtscheidt, Wolwer, Schwarz, Strauss, and Gaebel (2002); f, Cannon, Keefe, and Clark (1997); g, Canton et al (1988); h, Curran and Booth (1999); i, Donovan et al (1984) and Kivlahan, Sher, and Donovan (1989); j, Driessen et al (2001); k, Duckert (1993); l, Eckardt et al (1988); m, Edwards and Taylor (1994); n, Ellis and McClure (1992); o, Glenn and Parsons (1991) and Parsons, Schaeffer, and Glenn (1990); p, Greenfield et al (2000Greenfield et al ( , 2002Greenfield et al ( , 2003; q, Gregson and Taylor (1977); r, Haver (2003) and Haver, Dahlgren, and Willander (2001); s, Heather et al (1993); t, Heather et al (2000) and Heather and Dawe (2005); u, Hernandez-Avila, Burleson, and Kranzler (1998);v, Hodgins, el-Guebaly, Armstrong, and Dufour (1999); w, Hunter et al (2000) and Powell et al (1992); x, Jones and McMahon (1994b); y, Jones and McMahon (1994a); z, Jones and McMahon (1996); A, Kavanagh et al (1996); B, Kranzler, Mulgrew, Modesto-Lowe, and Burleson (1999); C, Langenbucher et al (1996Langenbucher et al ( , 1997; D, Lemke and ...…”