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Ben Jones; Oscar A. Parsons, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1971;24(1):71-75.

Abstract
Performance on an abstracting task by matched groups of hospitalized alcoholics (N = 40), brain damaged (N = 40), and control patients (N = 40) was compared. Alcoholics manifested a deficit on the Halstead Category test similar to that of the brain-damaged subjects. The performance deficit of the alcoholics was related positively to the number of years of drinking, independent of age. The pattern of performance differences in the present investigation along with the results from other investigations suggest that chronic alcoholics may have mild brain damage to the perfrontal area or related subcortical structures or both.

Author Affiliations
Oklahoma City

From the Division of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 6, 1970.

Reprint requests to Division of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Medical Center, 800 NE 13th St, Oklahoma City 73104 (Dr. Parsons).

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