Cerebral Hemispheric Lateralization of Cognitive Deficits Due to Alcoholism

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Abstract
Chronic human alcoholics (20) and a group of matched control subjects were tested on verbal and visuospatial memory tasks to determine if alcoholism disturbs cognitive functions subserved by the right hemisphere more than those subserved by the left hemisphere. The hypothesis was apparently supported. Information may be lost by pooling together test results from alcoholics which come from a mixture of verbal and nonverbal tasks.