title: Attentional bias for alcohol-related information in adolescents with alcohol-dependent parents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to assess the attentional bias for alcohol-related information in adolescents with (n = 15), and without (n = 15), a parental history of alcohol dependence.
  
  
  METHODS
  participants completed questionnaires assessing depression, weekly alcohol consumption, anxiety, and concerns about alcohol consumption and undertook subliminal and supraliminal computerized Stroop tasks using colour-words, alcohol-related words, and control words.
  
  
  RESULTS
  adolescents with alcohol-dependent parents showed supraliminal interference for alcohol-related words. The magnitude of this interference was correlated with higher trait and state anxiety, and lower levels of weekly alcohol consumption. No interference was found on the subliminal alcohol Stroop task.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  while it is likely that this attentional bias for alcohol-related cues reflects the concerns regarding parental drinking, it is also possible that this might underlie the increased risk of future alcohol dependence in the children of alcohol-dependent parents.
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Cotham House, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK.
authors.forename: Jessica I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Zetteler
authors.forename: Brian T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Stollery
authors.forename: Aviv M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.forename: Anne R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Lingford-Hughes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D003118:Color Perception; D003463:Cues; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012660:Semantics; D013360:Subliminal Stimulation