| Literature DB >> 3749512 |
S O'Connor, V Hesselbrock, A Tasman.
Abstract
Healthy men, aged 21-28, were divided into two groups according to the DSM-III diagnosis of alcoholism in their biological fathers. Evoked potentials from each subject were measured according to a visual odd-ball paradigm designed to elicit large responses in the midline parietal, Pz, lead. Subjects with alcoholic fathers produced significantly smaller amplitudes of the P3 component compared to subjects with non-alcoholic fathers. Reaction time, task difficulty and subject drinking history did not distinguish the groups. Subject's drinking history was not related to P3 amplitude.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 3749512 DOI: 10.1016/0278-5846(86)90075-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry ISSN: 0278-5846 Impact factor: 5.067