Lesson 29: Alcohol and You - Slide 22
Thinking Impairment
- Chronic alcohol abuse typically leads to some form of thinking impairment, ranging from mild to severe damage
- Studies of detoxified alcoholics have typically found damage in the areas of:
- Abstract thinking and problem solving
- Verbal and/or memory skills
- Visually encoding items, maintaining
images mentally and manipulating them,
a skill useful in everything from rearranging the furniture to fitting luggage into the trunk of the car
- Sensory-motor skills: such as those involved in becoming proficient at sports
Notes:
Pg. 93, “Assessment of Addictive Behaviors,” Second Edition, Edited by Dennis M. Donovan and G. Alan Marlatt, The Guilford Press, New York, 2005.
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