ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the alcohol use disorder (AUD) and Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) and reviews the studies investigating errorless (EL) learning in these populations before drawing conclusions about its usefulness and identifying directions for future research. The severity and persistence of amnesia in KS makes it difficult for most patients to live autonomously and independently. The patient learned to enter information into an electronic memory aid when trained with EL principles and did so better than when taught with an EF approach. The remaining studies involved patients with KS specifically but focused on learning different tasks: face–name associations, route learning, and activities of daily living. The chapter demonstrates that patients with alcohol-related cognitive disorders have the potential to learn new concepts, associations, and skills using EL principles. It discusses that have used EL principles for teaching new concepts, names, routes, and instrumental activities of daily living in patients with AUD and KS. The neuropsychological profile associated with AUD is heterogeneous.
