title: Alcohol-related cognitive impairment: current trends and future perspectives.
abstract: Excessive alcohol use is associated with a wide range of physical, psychological and social consequences, and is responsible for a significant proportion of the burden of disease globally. An area which has received increasing interest is alcohol-related brain damage, not just because of the cost to the individual and society through resource utilization, but also because of the potential for prevention and reversibility. This paper aims to review the current literature on this subject and seeks to explore issues around diagnosis and treatment of alcohol-related brain damage.
authors.affiliation: Drug & Alcohol Services, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia.|School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.affiliation: Drug & Alcohol Services, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia.|School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Apo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demirkol
authors.affiliation: Drug & Alcohol Services, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ridley
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Withall
authors.affiliation: School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.|Academic Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Draper
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects; D060825:Cognitive Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans
keywords: Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome; alcohol; alcohol-related brain damage