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Drinking and cognitive impairment: current concepts and controversies
Author(s) -
CLIFFORD CHRISTINE A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595239000185171
Subject(s) - cognitive impairment , multitude , alcohol consumption , cognition , psychology , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , alcohol , psychotherapist , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , law
The study of drinking and cognitive impairment has been very popular. Over the past 15 years much work has been conducted examining the specific characteristics of alcohol‐related impairment, concurrent morphological changes and the process itself. Numerous theories have been advanced and progress has been made in a number of areas. However, at the present time the area is undergoing a period of re‐evaluation. It is clear that if there is an association between alcohol consumption and cognitive impairment, there are a multitude of ‘other factors’ which need to be controlled for, before one can maintain that observed impairment is indeed a result of alcohol consumed.