Citation

Tarter RE, Jacob T, Bremer DA. Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 1989; 13(2): 232-235.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pennsylvania 15213.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2658662

Abstract

Sons of community dwelling alcoholic, depressed, and normal men were administered a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests. A generalized cognitive deficit was not found in the sons of alcoholics. The sons of alcoholics demonstrated greater ataxia than offspring in the two control groups and also performed more poorly on tests measuring visual scanning and attention, planning ability, and impulse control. These findings raise the possibility that an anterior cerebral dysfunction underlies the cognitive deficit observed in children of alcoholics.

Language: en