Executive function and adult homelessness, true impairment or frontal lobology?

ABSTRACT: Homelessness is associated with multiple risk factors for neurocognitive impairment. Past research with people experiencing homelessness has described "frontal lobe" dysfunction including behavioral disorders and executive cognitive impairments. In the current study, 72 adults experiencing homelessness were assessed with a standardized assessment of executive function, and interviewed regarding neurological and psychiatric history. When compared to a control sample of 25 never-homeless participants, and controlling for level of education, there was little evidence for executive dysfunction in the sample of people experiencing homelessness. Levels of substance abuse, past head injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder were notably high. However, there were no statistically significant asso

SUBMITTER: Pluck G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10844389 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature