Neuropsychological assessment chronic

BMAPS was developed for neuropsychological assessment of chronic alcoholics. It comprises five separate subtests. The tests have been shown to discriminate between groups of detoxified adult alcoholics and controls (Acker and Acker,... 

Neuropsychological assessment of chronic solvent abusers A preliminary report to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Washington, DC US Government Printing Gffice, 1976. 

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Neuropsychological procedures are used in an effort to provide an unbiased estimate of the individual s cognitive capacity. In neurology and psychiatry, these tests have been used to help clinicians to better diagnose patients and to provide them with better treatments. We chose to use a fixed battery in our effort to assess neurobehavioral changes that might be associated with the chronic use of marijuana. That battery included tests of language skills, visual and spatial memory, attention, concentration, executive function, visuo-constructive skills, manual dexterity, simple reaction time, and complex reaction time in subjects in our studies. The various tests used are listed below. 

The battery of neuropsychological tests was designed to assess a range of functions implicated in previous studies of (a) chronic solvent abuse or occupational exposure to solvents, or (b) other CNS exposures, such as alcohol abuse in adults or severe head injury or meningitis in children and adolescents. It included measures of general intellectual and reading ability as well as tests to assess more specific functions such as psychomotor speed, attention, memory, manual and digital dexterity, and vibration perception. 

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