Published: 2018-12-23

Linguistic Disorders in Alcohol Dependence: Representation and Dynamics

Urszula Ciszewska-Psujek Logo ORCID

Abstract

Alcohol dependence is a chronic disease which damages many systems and organs. The toxic influence of alcohol on the central nervous system leads to the durable reduction of neurons and neural connections in number and size, especially those within the frontal structures, the limbic system, and the cerebellum. These changes result in cognitive impairments, including executive cognitive impairments, memory deficits, and emotional information processing disorder. Cognitive deficits, in turn, affect the way of understanding human reality and the possibility to represent it in language. The diagnosis of speech disorders among alcohol-dependent patients can be accomplished by evaluating their narrative skills. The article contains selected narrative statements of two men maintaining short- and medium-term alcohol abstinence, and the description of the exponents of a particular attitude and neurocompensatory mechanisms.

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Ciszewska-Psujek, U. (2018). Linguistic Disorders in Alcohol Dependence: Representation and Dynamics. Logopedia Silesiana, (7), 56–80. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/LOGOPEDIASILESIANA/article/view/8236

No. 7 (2018)
Published: 2018-12-23


ISSN: 2300-5246
eISSN: 2391-4297
Ikona DOI 10.31261/LOGOPEDIASILESIANA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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