Clinical and Biological Risk Factors for Neuropsychological Impairment in Alcohol Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT: The effects of alcoholism on cognitive and motor functioning are heterogeneous. While the role of some factors (patterns of alcohol consumption, eating habits or associated liver disease) has been hypothesized, the origins of this heterogeneity remain difficult to establish. The goals of the present study were thus to identify the clinical and biological risk factors for alcohol-related neuropsychological impairments and to determine the threshold beyond which these risk factors can be considered significant. Thirty alcoholic patients and 15 healthy controls had a blood test and underwent a neuropsychological examination. Alcohol severity measures, and liver, thiamine and malnutrition variables, were included in logistic regression models to determine the risk factors for cognitive and mot

SUBMITTER: Ritz L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5019388 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature