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Neuropsychological Predictors of Alcohol Abtinence Following a Detoxification Program

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ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques (REHAB 2015)

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Abstract

Alcohol dependence syndrome has been associated to disfunctions of the pre-frontal cortex, with a negative impact on several areas of cognitive functioning, such as attention, memory and learning, visual-spatial synthesis, executive functions, and psychomotor functions. These changes in turn contribute to the perpetuation of the addictive behavior. We report a study with 249 recovering alcoholics assessed with neuropsychological tests pre- and post-treatment at an alcoholism rehab clinic, with follow-up for abstinence 3 and 6 months after treatment. We found that 3-month abstinence was associated to speed of psychomotor processing, whereas 6-month abstinence was related with decision-making, (lack of) impulsivity, speed of psychomotor processing, and emotional adjustment.

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The authors would like to thank Susana Carreiro for her contribution to the collection of the post-treatment sample.

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  1. EPCV/Lusophone University, Campo Grande, 376, Lisbon, Portugal

    Bruno Bento, Jorge Oliveira, Fátima Gameiro, Rodrigo Brito, Pedro Gamito, Paulo Lopes & Diogo Morais

  2. EPCV and COPELABS/Lusophone University, Campo Grande, 376, Lisbon, Portugal

    Jorge Oliveira, Fátima Gameiro, Rodrigo Brito, Pedro Gamito, Paulo Lopes & Diogo Morais

  3. Casa de Saúde do Telhal, Mem-Martins, Portugal

    Bruno Bento & Margarida Neto

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Bento, B. et al. (2017). Neuropsychological Predictors of Alcohol Abtinence Following a Detoxification Program. In: Fardoun, H., R. Penichet, V., Alghazzawi, D., De la Guia, M. (eds) ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques. REHAB 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 665. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69694-2_13

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