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Adult Children of Alcoholics: cognitive and psychomotor characteristics
Author(s) -
WILSON JAMES R.,
NAGOSHI CRAIG T.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00516.x
Subject(s) - mood , alcohol , alcohol abuse , cognition , family history , psychomotor learning , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , affect (linguistics) , medicine , biology , biochemistry , communication
Summary A comparison of individuals who report alcohol abuse in one or both parents (family history positive: FHP) with those who do not (family history negative: PHN) on a number of metabolic, behavioral, and mood measures before and after alcohol dosing revealed marginally lower cognitive abilities, on average, in the FHP group. Most of the other hypothesized differences between groups (e.g. alcohol metabolism; differential alcohol sensitivity; differential alcohol tolerance; mood) were not found, except in two‐ and three‐way interactions among gender, age, and FH. It seems evident that the search for biological markers of increased risk for future alcohol abuse will need to take account of gender and age, in addition to familial alcohol abuse.