Another interpretation suggests that increased binging causes a greater number of withdrawals, which produce the long-term deficits (Glenn, Parsons, Sinha, & Stevens, 1988; Parsons & Stevens, 1986; Stephens et al., 2005). The number of alcohol withdrawals has been linked to impairments of long-term nonverbal memory in adolescents and to poor memory in adult alcoholics (Glenn et al., 1988). Alcoholic patients with two or more medically supervised alcohol detoxifications demonstrated more frontal lobe cognitive dysfunction than patients with a single or no previous detoxification (Duka, Townshend, Collier, & Stephens, 2003).
