Neuropsychological correlates of Greek alcoholic patients who report memory disturbances.
We studied 40 male and 37 female (M age=63 yr.) Greek alcoholic patients and an equal number of control subjects. Both groups were evaluated with the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Syndrome Short Test, the Verbal Fluency Test (Category & Letter), the Clock Test, and the Digit Span (Forward and Backward from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised). Alcoholic patients had statistically significant lower scores on MMSE, Verbal Fluency Test, and Digit Span, and higher scores on the Syndrome Short Test, while positive correlations were found among MMSE, Verbal Fluency Test, Clock Test, Digit Span-Backward, and age. These findings point to frontal lobe dysfunction in Greek alcoholic patients which is not different from that shown in patients from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Liappas
Ioannis
I
Athens University Medical School. iiliasmd@yahoo.com
Theotoka
Ioulia
I
Kapaki
Elisabeth
E
Ilias
Ioannis
I
Paraskevas
George P
GP
Rabavilas
Andreas D
AD
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012720:Severity of Illness Index