“…Patients with frontotemporal dementia typically also show a poor performance on the verbal fluency test (Elfgren, Passant, & Risberg, 1993;Elfgren, Ryding, & Passant, 1996). Moreover, several studies indicate that the frontal cortical regions are especially vulnerable to the detrimental influence of alcohol (Adams et al, 1995;Charness, 1993;JohnsonGreene et al, 1997;Jones & Parsons, 1971;Volkow et al, 1992), with correlations between abnormalities on tests of executive functioning and decreased metabolic rates for glucose in the frontal lobes of severe chronic alcoholic subjects (Adams et al, 1995;Johnson-Greene et al, 1997).…”