Executive Functioning Correlates With Communication Ability in Youth With Histories of Heavy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.
Lauren R DoyleEileen M MooreClaire D ColesJulie A KableElizabeth R SowellJeffrey R WozniakKenneth L JonesEdward P RileySarah N Mattsonnull nullPublished in: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS (2018)
Both groups displayed a relation between communication and Spatial Working Memory and Inhibition. Stronger communication ability related to stronger verbal fluency in the AE group and Twenty Questions performance in the CON group. These findings suggest that alcohol-exposed adolescents may rely more heavily on learned verbal storage or fluency for daily communication while non-exposed adolescents may rely more heavily on abstract thinking and verbal efficiency. Interventions aimed at aspects of executive function may be most effective at improving communication ability of these individuals. (JINS, 2018, 24, 1026-1037).