Comparisons of the cognitive functioning of familial and nonfamilial alcoholics.
Alcoholic men (N = 81) participating in a Veterans Administration inpatient program were classified using four different strategies to describe the extent of familial alcoholism. These classification schemes included: (1) a comparison of alcoholics with no familial alcoholism, parental alcoholism or alcoholism in other relatives, (2) a unilineal-bilineal approach, (3) a multigenerational approach and (4) an approach that quantified the degree of familial alcoholism. Comparisons were made of the performance of the different familial history groups on a series of neuropsychological tests. No differences in cognitive functioning were found using any of the four classification schemes.
Alterman
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Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gerstley
L J
LJ
Goldstein
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Tarter
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D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests