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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access The impacts of substance abuse and dependence on neuropsychological functions in a sample of patients from Saudi Arabia 1 1,2 Mohamed A Al-Zahrani and Yasser A Elsayed* 1 2 Address: Al-Amal Complex for Mental Health, PO 5054, Dammam 31422, Saudia Arabia and Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Abbasia, Cairo, Egypt Email: Mohamed A Al-Zahrani - mohamedalzahrani1960@; Yasser A Elsayed* - yarazek68@ * Corresponding author Published: 11 December 2009 Received: 19 September 2009 Accepted: 11 December 2009 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2009, 5:48 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-48 This article is available from: /content/5/1/48 © 2009 Al-Zahrani and Elsayed; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: A lot of studies were directed to explore the relation between drug abuse and neuropsychological functions. Some studies reported that even after a long duration of disappearance of withdrawal or intoxication symptoms, many patients have obvious deterioration of cognitive functions. The aim of this stu