Children of alcoholics: attention, information processing and event-related brain potentials
| Autor: | O. van der Stelt, Jan Snel, E.J. Zeef, Albert Kok, W.B. Gunning |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Onderzoeksinstituut Psychologie (FMG) |
| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Vulnerability Mental Processes Child of Impaired Parents Risk Factors Event-related potential Humans Medicine Attention Risk factor Family history Child Psychiatry Evoked Potentials media_common business.industry Addiction Information processing General Medicine Alcoholism El Niño Paternal alcoholism Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health business Biomarkers |
| Zdroj: | Acta Paediatrica Supplement, 404, 4-6. Almquist & Wiksell Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0365-5741 |
| Popis: | Recent studies on biological markers and risk factors for alcoholism have distinguished between nonalcoholic individuals with a family history of alcoholism and those without such a family history on measures of event-related brain potentials. The main finding of these "high-risk" studies is a smaller amplitude of the P300 component in males with a history of paternal alcoholism. This relationship between P300 amplitude and a family history of paternal alcoholism has been observed in adults and children. Consequently, several authors have suggested that a reduced P300 amplitude could serve as a vulnerability marker for alcoholism. We address several conceptual and methodological issues involved in the study of event-related potentials in children at high risk for alcoholism. Subsequently, the ongoing high-risk study of the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research is described briefly. |
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