In summary, a considerable body of research indicates selective deficiencies of multiple facets of visuospatial cognition in association with long-term alcoholism. There is evidence that some of these deficits may recover with abstinence, and that improvements are associated with reorganized brain functioning. In other words, the abilities that appear to have remained intact or recovered through significant lengths of abstinence may be explained by recourse to the compensatory action of recruitment of other brain regions through a dynamic process of reorganization.
