Premium
Static Ataxia: a Possible Marker for Alcoholism
Author(s) -
Hegedus Andrea M.,
Tarter Ralph E.,
Hill Shirley Y.,
Jacob Theodore,
Winsten Nancy E.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1984.tb05735.x
Subject(s) - ataxia , psychology , audiology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine
Adolescent sons of alcoholic, depressed, and normal fathers were compared on a measure of static ataxia, or body sway. It was found that the young males at risk for developing alcoholism were more ataxic than the sons of depressed fathers and normal controls. The possibility that static ataxia may be a premorbid marker for detecting males at heightened risk for alcoholism is discussed.