In order to refine our understanding of alcoholism-related impaired, spared, and recovered abilities, we focus on five specific functional domains: (1) memory, (2) executive functions, (3) emotion and psychosocial skills, (4) visuospatial cognition, and (5) psychomotor abilities. Each neuropsychological domain has a unique profile of relative impairment, or lack thereof. For each domain, behavioral deficits are discussed first (summarized in Appendix: Table 1) along with their associated brain abnormalities (Appendix: Table 2), followed by evidence of compensation or recovery.
