Open AccessSet-shifting and selective attentional impairment in alcoholism and its relation with drinking variables
Author(s) -
Nirmal Saraswat,
Sanjeev Ranjan,
Daya Ram
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.31619
Subject(s) - stroop effect , abstinence , analysis of variance , psychology , audiology , alcohol dependence , post hoc analysis , alcohol , affect (linguistics) , set (abstract data type) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , cognition , biochemistry , chemistry , communication , computer science , programming language
Individuals with chronic alcoholism show impairments in visual scanning, set-shifting and response inhibition abilities.