RT Journal Article
T1 Visual and auditory event-related potentials in young children of alcoholics from high- and low-density families
A1 Rodríguez Holguín, Socorro
A1 Corral Varela, María Montserrat
A1 Cadaveira Mahía, Fernando
K1 Event-related potentials
K1 Children of alcoholics
K1 Family history
K1 Potenciais evocados
K1 Fillos de alcohólicos
K1 Historia familiar
K1 Potenciales evocados
K1 Hijos de alcohólicos
AB Event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the P3 wave, have been proposed as biological markers of genetic risk for alcoholism. The present study assesses the ERPs from 102 boys and girls (7 to 15 years old) divided into three groups: two groups of sons and daughters of alcoholic fathers, with and without other first- or second-degree relatives affected, and a control group of children of nonalcoholics. Both visual and auditory discrimination tasks with three stimuli (standard, target, and infrequent nontarget) were used. P3 amplitudes did not reach significant reduction for the high-risk males and were complex for females. There were significant differences among females in P3 visual latency elicited by targets; delays in this variable were associated with multigenerational familial alcoholism. Results are discussed in light of the tasks used for eliciting the ERPs and the characteristics of the selected sample
PB Wiley
SN 0145-6008
YR 1998
FD 1998
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24444
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24444
LA eng
NO Rodríguez Holguín, S., Corral, M., Cadaveira, F. (1998). Visual and auditory event-related potentials in young children of alcoholics from high- and low-density families. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 22(1), 87–96
NO This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (DGlCYT) Grants PM91-0159-C02-02 and PB95-0856
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