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. 1986;10(2):211-8.
doi: 10.1016/0278-5846(86)90075-8.

Correlates of increased risk for alcoholism in young men

S O'Connor, V Hesselbrock, A Tasman

Correlates of increased risk for alcoholism in young men

S O'Connor et al. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 1986.

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.

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