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Learning and Memory Impairments in Young and Old Alcoholics: Evidence for the Premature‐Aging Hypothesis
Author(s) -
Ryan Christopher,
Butters Nelson
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1980.tb04816.x
Subject(s) - psychology , premature aging , cognition , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , physiology
A battery of cognitive tests was administered to groups of younger (34–49) and older (50–59) alcoholics and nonalcoholic control subjects. Regardless of age, alcoholics were found to be impaired on essentially all measures of learning and memory. The relevance of these findings to the premature‐aging hypothesis is discussed .