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Published in final edited form as: Handb Clin Neurol. 2014;125:183–210. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-62619-6.00012-4

Appendix Table 1.

References to research reviewed in this chapter. The table is organized by neuropsychological domain and assessment tool, and it indicates findings of (a) residual impairments associated with long-term chronic alcoholism, and (b) compensation or recovery of functions with abstinence. Abbreviations: BADS, Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome; CANTAB, Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery; COWAT, Controlled Oral Word Association Test; ICARS, International Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale; IQ, Intelligence Quotient; POMS, Profile of Mood States; SILS, Shipley Institute of Living Scale; STM, Short-Term Memory; WAIS, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; WASI, Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; WMS, Wechsler Memory Scale. For descriptions of most tests cited, refer to Lezak et al. (2012) and Strauss et al. (2006).

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL
MEASURES
IMPAIRMENTS COMPENSATION AND
RECOVERY
General Ability and Intelligence
Global Assessment of Functioning Pfefferbaum et al., 2009; Rosenbloom et al., 2009;
Schulte et al., 2012b
Mehrfachwahl-Wortschatz-
Intelligenztest MWT-B
Mann et al., 2005
National Adult Reading Test Score Pfefferbaum et al., 2001b
Peabody IQ Rosenbloom et al., 2009
SILS Abstraction: mental age Beatty et al., 1996; Beatty et al., 2000
SILS Vocabulary: mental age Beatty et al., 1996; Beatty et al., 2000
WAIS Full Scale IQ Davies et al., 2005
WAIS Performance IQ Makris et al., 2008
WAIS Similarities Kish et al., 1980 (between 15
and 21 days)
WAIS Vocabulary Pfefferbaum et al., 1992; Davies et al., 2005
WASI General IQ Index Rosenbloom et al., 2007

Memory
California Verbal Learning Test Noel et al., 2012
Dementia Rating Scale Sullivan et al., 2002b; Davies et al., 2005;
Sullivan et al., 2010
Dementia Rating Scale: Memory
Scale
Rosenbloom et al., 2004 Rosenbloom et al., 2004 (4 year
follow-up)
Ecological Contextual Memory
Test
Pitel et al., 2007
Face-name association learning
and recognition fMRI tasks
Pitel et al., 2012b
Feeling of Knowing Task Le Berre et al., 2010; Le Berre et al., 2012
Free and Cued Selective
Reminding Test
Pitel et al., 2007
Free and Cued Selective
Reminding Test
PItel et al., 2007; Le Berre et al., 2012
Grobe and Buchske (free recall) Chanraud-Guillermo et al., 2009
Other word recall tasks Le Berre et al., 2010
Spondee Test PItel et al., 2007; Le Berre et al., 2012
WMS Delayed Memory Fama et al., 2012
WMS Logical Memory I and II
(story recall)
Sullivan et al., 2000b; Davies et al., 2005
WMS Verbal composite Reed et al., 1992; Fama et al., 2004
WMS Verbal Recall Sullivan et al., 2000a (2 to 12
month follow-up)
WMS Visual Memory Fama et al., 2012
WMS-R Memory Index Sullivan et al., 2002b; Davies et al., 2005;
Sullivan et al., 2010

Executive Functions
Alternate Response Task Pitel et al., 2009 (6 month
follow up)
Iowa Gambling Task Fernandez-Serrano et al., 2010; Le Berre et al., 2012
Recency Sullivan et al., 2000b
Ruff Figural Fluency Task Sullivan et al., 2002b; Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
Self Ordered Pointing Sullivan et al., 2000b
Trail Making Test (A and/or B) Ratti et al., 2002; Sullivan et al., 2002b;
Davies et al., 2005; Pfefferbaum et al., 2006
(component of working memory
composite score); Chanraud et al., 2007;
Oscar-Berman et al., 2009; Loeber et al., 2010;
Le Berre et al., 2012
Kish et al., 1980 (between 15
and 21 days); Loeber et al., 2010
(6 month follow-up)
Verbal Fluency (e.g. FAS,
COWAT)
Pitel et al., 2007; Oscar-Berman et al., 2009;
Fernandez-Serrano et al., 2010
Visual Search Sullivan et al., 2000b
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Sullivan et al., 1993; Sullivan et al., 2000b;
Sullivan et al., 2002b; Ratti et al., 2002;
Fama et al., 2004; Chanraud et al., 2007;
Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
Sullivan et al., 2000a (2 to 12
month follow-up)
Working and Short Term Memory
Brown-Peterson Distractor Test Sullivan et al., 2000b
STM Nonverbal Sullivan et al., 2002b; Rosenbloom et al., 2004 Sullivan et al., 2000a (2 to 12
month follow-up); Rosenbloom et al., 2004
(4 year follow-up)
STM Verbal Sullivan et al., 2002b; Rosenbloom et al., 2004
WAIS Block Span Pfefferbaum et al., 2006 Sullivan et al., 2000a (2 to 12
month follow-up)
WAIS Digit Span Pfefferbaum et al., 2006 Kish et al., 1980 (between 15
and 21 days, and 21 and 110
days of abstinence); Sullivan et al., 2000a
(2 to 12 month
follow-up); Alhassoon et al., 2012
(1 year follow-up)
WAIS Digit Symbol Reed et al., 1992; Beatty et al., 2000;
Ratti et al., 2002; Oscar-Berman et al., 2004;
Rosenbloom et al., 2004; Davies et al., 2005;
Makris et al., 2008; Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
WAIS Letter-Number Sequencing Chanraud et al., 2007; Uekermann et al., 2007
Executive Functions - Selective
Attention
WAIS Digit Cancellation Ratti et al., 2002
Inhibition and Impulsivity
Attentional Assessment Test Pitel et al., 2007
Childhood Behavior Disorders
Checklist
Beatty et al., 1996
Modified Card Sorting Task Le Berre et al., 2012
Modified Stroop Lusher et al., 2004; Pitel et al., 2007
N-back task Pitel et al., 2007
South Oaks Gambling Screen Mitchell et al., 2005
Stroop Color Naming Ratti et al., 2002; Uekermann et al., 2007
Stroop Color Word Naming Ratti et al., 2002; Le Berre et al., 2012
Stroop Word Reading Uekermann et al., 2007
Utah Criteria Beatty et al., 1996
Weintraub and Mesulam’s Beatty et al., 1996
Letter/Symbol Cancellation Task

Emotion and Psychosocial Skills
Emotions and Mood
Beck Depression Inventory Beatty et al., 1996; Monnot et al., 2001;
Mann et al., 2005; Mitchell et al., 2005;
Uekermann et al., 2005; Foisy et al., 2007;
Maurage et al., 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012a;
Pfefferbaum et al., 2009;
Rosenbloom et al., 2009; Witkiewitz 2009;
Durazzo et al., 2010; Loeber et al., 2010;
Kornreich et al., 2011, 2013
Depression Scale of the Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Di Sclafani et al., 2008
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Scale
Mitchell et al., 2005
Hamilton Rating Scale for
Depression
Makris et al., 2008; Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
POMS Anger Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
POMS Depression Makris et al., 2008; Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
POMS Tension Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
Reiss-Epstein Anxiety Sensitivity
Index
Di Sclafani et al., 2008
Spielberger Trait Anxiety Davies et al., 2005
State-Trait Anxiety Index Beatty et al., 1996; Di Sclafani et al., 2008;
Maurage et al., 2008, 2011, 2012a;
Townshend and Duka, 2003; O’Daly et al., 2012;
Foisy et al., 2007; Kornreich et al., 2011, 2013
Zung Anxiety Scale Kornreich et al., 2001, 2002
Zung Depression Scale Kornreich et al., 2001, 2002
Face Processing
Benton Facial Recognition Test Foisy et al., 2007
Ekman and Friesen Pictures Maurage et al., 2007; Kornreich et al., 2013
Emotional Facial Expression Test Foisy et al., 2007
International Affective Picture
System
Gilman et al., 2010
Matsumoto and Ekman Pictures Kornreich et al., 2002; Philippot et al., 1999
Personality
Hypomania Scale of the Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Di Sclafani et al., 2008
NEO Personality Inventory Salloum et al., 2007
Psychopathic Deviance Scale of
the Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory
Di Sclafani et al., 2008
Psychosocial Skills
Adaptation Skills Battery Nixon et al., 1992
Aprosodia Battery Monnot et al., 2001, 2002
Barratt Impulsivity Scale Mitchell et al., 2005
Emotion-Regulation Skills
Questionnaire
Berking et al., 2011
Empathy Quotient Maurage et al., 2011
Florida Affect Battery-Revised
(German Version)
Uekermann et al., 2005
Interpersonal Reactivity Index
(Emotional Empathy Factors)
Maurage et al., 2011; Gizewski et al., 2013
Inventory of Interpersonal
Problems
Kornreich et al., 2002; Maurage et al., 2009, 2011
Montreal Affective Voices Kornreich et al., 2013
Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale Mitchell et al., 2005
Socialization Scale of the
California Psychological Inventory
Di Sclafani et al., 2008
Toronto Alexithymia Scale Stasiewicz et al., 2012, Thorberg et al., 2011,
Maurage et al., 2011
Trait Emotional intelligence
Questionnaire
Kornreich et al., 2011
WAIS Comprehension Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
WAIS Object Assembly Beatty et al., 1996
WAIS Picture Arrangement Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
Wason Selection Task Kornreich et al., 2011
World Health Organisation Quality
of Life BREF
Hibbert and Best, 2011

Visuospatial Cognition
CANTAB Pattern Recognition
Memory
Townshend and Duka, 2003; Kopera et al., 2012
CANTAB Spatial Working
Memory Span
Kopera et al., 2012
Category Test Reed et al., 1992
Gollin Incomplete Pictures Sullivan et al., 2000b; Fama et al., 2004
Hidden Figures Test Sullivan et al., 2000b; Sullivan et al., 2002b; Fama et al., 2004
Memory for Designs Kish et al., 1980 (between 15 and 21 days)
Mental Rotation Test Beatty et al., 1996
Rey-Osterrieth Beatty et al., 1996; Sullivan et al., 2000b;
Sullivan et al., 2002b
Spatial Processing (Mean of Block
Design, Microcog Clocks,
Microcog Tic Tac)
Fein et al., 2006
WAIS Block Design Beatty et al., 1996; Sullivan et al., 2002b;
Oscar-Berman et al., 2009
Kish et al., 1980 (between 15
and 21 days)
WAIS Matrix Reasoning Pfefferbaum et al., 2006
WMS Drawing Sullivan et al., 2000b; Sullivan et al., 2000a (2 to 12
month follow-up)
WMS Visual Learning Reed et al., 1992
WMS Visual Recall Reed et al., 1992

Psychomotor Skills
Alternated Finger Tapping Sullivan et al., 2002a
Finger Tapping Parks et al., 2003
Fregly-Graybiel Walk-a-Line Test Pfefferbaum et al., 2006
Walk-a-Line Ataxia Battery Sullivan et al., 2000b; Fein et al., 2013 Rosenbloom et al., 2004 (4 year
follow-up)
ICARS Kinetic Fitzpatrick et al., 2012
ICARS Occulomotor Fitzpatrick et al., 2012
ICARS Posture and Gait Fitzpatrick et al., 2012
ICARS Speech Fitzpatrick et al., 2012
ICARS Total Fitzpatrick et al., 2012
Movement Time Sullivan et al., 2002a
Simple Reaction Time Task York and Biederman, 1991; Ratti et al., 2002;
Maurage et al., 2008; Kopera et al., 2012
Stand Heel-to-Toe Rosenbloom et al., 2004
Stand on One Foot Rosenbloom et al., 2004
Symbol Digit Modalities Fama et al., 2012
Symbol-Digit Substitution Test
and Digit Symbol Substitution
Test
Rosenbloom et al., 2004 (4 year
follow-up)
Task-Based Reaction Time Maurage et al., 2008; Fein et al., 2010;
Pandey et al., 2012
Walk Heel-to-Toe Rosenbloom et al., 2004