Cognitive deficits in alcoholic women.
Part of a special issue on women and alcohol. The neuropsychologic and neurophysiologic consequences of long-term alcohol abuse in women are analyzed. Evidence indicates that alcoholic women experience significant deficits when compared with nonalcoholic women over a broad range of neuropsychologi...
| Publicado en: | Alcohol Health & Research World Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 228 - 233 |
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
1994
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