episodic memory and spatial visualization tasks than did non/light drinking women, a pattern not found in men. Finally, Sullivan and colleagues (2002) have found that, while cognitive deficits in abstinent alcoholic men are most often reported in visuospatial and executive domains, the cognitive functions most severely affected in abstinent alcoholic women were visuospatial abilities and verbal and nonverbal working memory processes, with relative sparing of executive functions. Taken together, the above results underscore the need for investigations using treatment-naïve AD samples to better understand potential sex differences in effects of alcohol on cognitive function. In the present study TNAD individuals were matched for age and gender with non-alcoholic control subjects to allow for unbiased comparisons of cognitive profiles in men and women.
