Executive Dysfunction Related to Binge Drinking in Ischemic Stroke.

Background: Recent evidence has shown that cognitive dysfunction is associated with a history of binge drinking in adolescents who do not have an alcohol use disorder. Most previous studies with adults, however, have failed to show a link between cognitive dysfunction and subdiagnostic binge drinking, nor have any studies investigated the additive cognitive effect of binge drinking to ischemic stroke.

Objective: To examine whether a pattern of cognitive dysfunction, especially executive and memory dysfunction, in patients with a first-ever ischemic stroke is associated with a history of subdiagnostic binge drinking.

Domain-Specific Cognitive Recovery after First-Ever Stroke: A 2-Year Follow-Up.

Objectives: The aim of this work was to study the change in different cognitive domains after stroke during a 2-year follow-up.

Method: We evaluated both neuropsychologically and neurologically a consecutive cohort of working-age patients with a first-ever stroke at baseline (within the first weeks), 6 months, and 2 years after stroke-onset. A total of 153 patients participated in all examinations and were compared to 50 healthy controls.

Executive Impairment Is Associated with Impaired Memory Performance in Working-Aged Stroke Patients.

Objectives: Executive dysfunction is associated with impaired memory performance, but controversies remain about which aspects of memory are involved and how general intelligence influences these connections. We aimed to clarify these connections in stroke patients by comparing various memory measures in patients with and without executive impairment.

Methods: Our consecutive cohort included patients with a first-ever ischemic stroke.