Behavioral restraint and symptoms of attention deficit disorder in alcoholics and pathological gamblers.
Adult alcoholics as well as pathological gamblers reported that, as children, they had higher than control levels of attention deficit disorder-related behaviors. On the other hand, alcoholics and only a subset of gamblers showed deficits in a test of behavioral restraint.
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Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway 08854.
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