Cognitive impairment due to alcohol abuse: current status of research
| dc.contributor.author | Pikirenia, Uladzimir I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fedotov, Ilya A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tuchina, Olga D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kapytau, Andrei U. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-20T14:41:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-20T14:41:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Alcohol abuse causes significant changes in cognitive functioning. These effects are related to the fact that ethanol and acetaldehyde, its first metabolite, affect the the brain’s neurotransmitter systems. Long-term abuse may lead to the dysexecutive syndrome (DES) exhibited through emotional, behavioral and cognitive symptoms. Alcohol has a specific dose-dependent effect on memory that serves as a block of memory consolidation, i.e. transition of the short-term memories to the long-term storage. This effect displays either as reversible amnesias of events from the alcohol abuse period (blackouts), or as an irreversible fixation amnesia within Korsakoff’s syndrome. Refs 34. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pikirenia U. I., Fedotov I. A., Tuchina O. D., Kapytau A. U. Cognitive impairment due to alcohol abuse: current status of research. Vestnik SPbSU. Medicine, 2017, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 266–272. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.21638/11701/spbu11.2017.306 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7168 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | St Petersburg State University | en_GB |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Medicine;Volume 12; Issue 3 | |
| dc.subject | cognitive functions | en_GB |
| dc.subject | alcohol | en_GB |
| dc.subject | amnesia | en_GB |
| dc.subject | blackouts | en_GB |
| dc.subject | dysexecutive syndrome | en_GB |
| dc.title | Cognitive impairment due to alcohol abuse: current status of research | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |