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Intellectual Competence of Alcoholics

Ralph E. Tarter, Nancy Buonpane, Cynthia Wynant

SUMMARY. Alcoholic and psychiatric inpatients matched in age and education performed comparably on a battery of cognitive tests. The absence of impairment in the alcoholics is attributed to the relatively short duration of their alcoholism (mean, 7.2 years) and the nature of the tasks involved.