Effects of Alcohol- and Cigarette-Use Disorders on Global and Specific Measures of Cognition in Middle-Age Adults

Caspers, Kristin; Arndt, Stephan; Yucuis, Rebecca; McKirgan, Lowell; Spinks, Ruth

doi:10.15288/jsad.2010.71.192

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“…This result was observed despite similar ages, racial distributions, education, religious involvement, as well as alcohol and drug histories at T1 for Groups 1 and 3. The course of combined diagnoses might reflect the impact of concomitant substance use itself, perhaps through greater impaired judgment, poor executive functioning and problems in mood regulation associated with the exposure to multiple types of substances (Casper et al, 2010; Tait et al, 2011). …”

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The Patterns of Drug and Alcohol Use and Associated Problems Over 30 Years in 397 Men

Schuckit

Smith

Kalmijn

2013

Alcohol Clin Exp Res

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Background Alcohol- and drug-use disorders (AUDs and SUDs) and their combination are relatively common, and often occur together. However, the relationships of potential early life correlates of alcohol and drug disorders to the combined diagnoses have rarely been evaluated in long-term prospective studies or in populations at high risk for one of these diagnoses but not the other. Methods Data were analyzed from 397males (half with an alcohol-dependent father) who had no AUDs or SUDs at age 20 and who were followed ~every five years for three decades. Early life correlates and the course of AUDs, SUDs, and combined disorders were evaluated for four groups of subjects based on subsequent alcohol and/or drug diagnoses. Results While the overall rates of the development of AUDs and SUDs were 41% and 21%, respectively, the rates of the second substance-related diagnosis were almost two-fold higher for individuals who had the first condition. Among potential risk factors, scores for externalizing traits were elevated for men with AUDs, SUDs, and their combination, but a low level of response (low LR) to alcohol was associated only with the risk for AUDs, even when observed in the context of SUDs. The same earlier life characteristics that related to AUDs and to SUDs also related to the combination of these diagnoses in the same person. Finally, in this prospective study subjects with both alcohol and drug use disorders had a more severe course than subjects with either condition alone. Conclusions This prospective evaluation of a group at high risk for AUDs confirmed the selective impact of the low LR on the risk for AUDs, the relationship of externalizing characteristics to both AUDs and SUDs, and confirmed the more severe clinical course for both conditions when seen together.

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The Patterns of Drug and Alcohol Use and Associated Problems Over 30 Years in 397 Men

Schuckit

Smith

Kalmijn

2013

Alcohol Clin Exp Res

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“…Besides, an experiment on behavioral measures of balloon analogue risk task revealed an increased level of risk taking in young adult smokers [28]. Furthermore, an ultimate poor performance was noted in smokers for learning and/or memory [29][30][31][32], working memory [33], executive functions [34,35], processing speed and cognitive flexibility.…”

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Cigarette smoke and related risk factors in neurological disorders: An update

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Krishnan

et al. 2017

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

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“…In a middleaged sample, women (but not men) diagnosed with a history of tobacco dependence performed worse than those without such a diagnosis on measures of processing speed, visuospatial processing, and executive functioning. 56 In a sample with an average age older than 67, most aspects of cognitive functioning were unaffected by a history of smoking, but heavy smokers performed worse than light and moderate smokers on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test . 57 By contrast, Schinka, Vanderploeg, Rogish, et al 58 studied people aged 60 to 84 and failed to find any effects of lifelong smoking history on executive and other cognitive functions.…”

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