Cognitive Components of Frontal Lobe Function in Alcoholics Classified According to Lesch's TypologyAlcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published online on August 8, 2009
This study examined the frontal lobe cognitive function and the mental state among patients with different types of alcohol dependence according to Lesch's typology.
Executive dysfunctions in alcohol dependence seem to vary depending upon the type of alcoholism. Therefore, the determination of clinical type of alcohol dependence by applying Lesch's typology, along with brief mental state and frontal function examinations, is of clinical relevance in the examination of alcoholics and provides significant clues for more directed forms of alcohol dependence treatment.
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