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Impact of cirrhosis on the neuropsychological test performance of alcoholics
R E Tarter1, D H Van Thiel, A M Arria
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pennsylvania.
Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
Alcoholics and nonalcoholics with biopsy-proven cirrhosis were compared to each other and to a normal control group on a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests. No systematic differences were found between the two liver disease groups. These results indicate that a history of alcoholism does not substantially contribute to the manifest neuropsychological deficits beyond that due to a coexistent hepatic encephalopathy.