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The pattern of cognitive impairment in patients with Alcohol dependence syndrome

Author: MARIA TELLCOTT, B.SRINIVASAN, VIDYENDRAN RUTHRAN, JESSIE JOSEPH, SABARI SRIDHAR O.T, KAILASH SURESH KUMAR, SHAJAHAN ISMAIL SABARI, KAILASH, SHABEEBA KULAH
Abstract: Alcohol dependence is highly prevalent in India and these patients when abstinent from alcohol following treatment may be prone to develop cognitive impairment to varying degrees. The worst affected brain functions are related to visual and spatial aspects, continuous motor incorporation, reasoning abilities, shortterm memory. The study was a prospective cross-sectional study. Study population covered all male sufferers dealt with for present day alcohol requirement syndrome, who have been preserved and were abstemious from alcohol consumption for as a minimum 1 month. The examine changed into conducted inside the Department of Psychiatry, Chettinad health center and research institute, that is a tertiary care teaching health facility. The examine turned into performed for a length of 6 months. The scale used to evaluate the sternness of alcohol dependence was sternness for alcohol dependence Questionnaire (SAD Q). The tools used for assessment of cognitive dysfunction in the study were, Digit symbol replacement test, Passage test/ Trail making test A&B (Wechsler’s adult intelligence test), Benton visual retention test (BVRT) and Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST). This concurrent Neurocognitive impairment can lessen dependancy treatment compliance, mitigate will increase in self-efficacy at some stage in treatment, and dissociate the typical predictive courting between ingesting outcomes and trade approaches that perform during and following treatment. Considering the scarcity of the existing literature and need for further studies, the existing study was showed with andetached to study the pattern of cognitive deficiency in patients with Alcohol dependence syndrome and factors influencing it.This work focuses on the Cognitive impairment is highly dominant in alcohol dependence patients during the abstinence. The prevalence shows lot of variation depending on the assessment tool used. Large scale studies are needed to appreciate the factors influencing cognitive impairment in these patients.
Keyword: Benton visual retention test,Wisconsin card sorting test,Wechsler’s adult intelligence test,WHO,World Health Assembly,Quantitative parameters
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