Psychological medicine. Treatment of alcoholism.

Specific Psychological Deficits in Alcoholism

attitude, then this finding is in conflict with the reports of most authors who have investigated the topic. Jones and Parsons (1972) are an exception. They found that the abstract attitude was only impaired if the test involved non-verbal skills, and argued that visuo perceptual deficits might be responsible for findings which had been attributed by other authors to impaired abstracting abilit...

Psychological medicine. Drugs used in psychological medicine: pharmacological basis of treatment.

Medical psychological aspects of contemporary alcoholism.

Today ' s Treatment Psychological Medicine Organic Illness

Amnesia, dementia, and confusion have areas of overlap that can be ciarified in the individual by a full history from patient and relatives, along with the observations and comments of trained staff who have been looking after the patient. The information that is needed can be summarized thus: (a) Orientation in time and space. (b) Memory for recent and past personal events. (c) Memory for rece...

Disulfiram Treatment of Alcoholism

P to the completion of this well­designed scientific study, which was conducted at nine Veterans Administration Medical Centers, the medication disulfiram (Antabuse®) was controversial in the treatment of alcoholism. The controversy over its efficacy was rooted in the lack of sophisticated scientific data on which to base its effectiveness. Fuller and colleagues used state­of­the­art clinical r...