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Event-related potentials elicited by infrequent non-target stimuli in young children of alcoholics: family history and gender differences.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  9632054     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This article analyses the visual and auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by infrequent non-target stimuli in young children with alcoholic fathers. The aim was to study the characteristics of the ERP waves specifically evoked by stimuli which capture the attention of the subject in young ones at risk for alcoholism, and to assess the effect of sample factors which can modulate these characteristics, namely family history of alcoholism and gender. There were no differences related to risk for alcoholism on the auditory ERPs. However, males and females with a multigenerational family history of alcoholism showed significant differences on visual ERP latencies, although different waves were affected for each gender. Females showed a larger latency of the visual frontal negative wave, Nc, and males showed a larger latency of the visual parietocentral P300 wave.
Authors:
S Rodríguez Holguín; M Corral; F Cadaveira
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)     Volume:  33     ISSN:  0735-0414     ISO Abbreviation:  Alcohol Alcohol.     Publication Date:    1998 May-Jun
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1998-08-31     Completed Date:  1998-08-31     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8310684     Medline TA:  Alcohol Alcohol     Country:  ENGLAND    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  281-90     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adolescent
Alcoholism / genetics*,  physiopathology,  psychology
Arousal / genetics*,  physiology
Attention / physiology*
Cerebral Cortex / physiopathology
Child
Child of Impaired Parents / psychology*
Electroencephalography*
Event-Related Potentials, P300 / genetics,  physiology
Evoked Potentials, Auditory / genetics,  physiology
Evoked Potentials, Visual / genetics,  physiology
Female
Humans
Male
Reaction Time / genetics,  physiology
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