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Specific Cognitive Impairment in Sons of Early Onset Alcoholics
Author(s) -
Tarter Ralph E.,
Jacob Theodore,
Bremer Deborah L.
Publication year - 1989
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.1530-0277.1989.tb00422.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuropsychology , offspring , developmental psychology , cognition , clinical psychology , psychiatry , pregnancy , biology , genetics
Cognitive and behavioral functioning in school‐aged sons of early onset alcoholics, late onset alcoholics, normal social drinking fathers, and depressed fathers were compared on a battery of neuropsychological measures. Sons of early onset alcoholics performed more poorly than offspring of the normal fathers on tests measuring attention and verbal intellectual capacity, but were not significantly different from sons of late onset alcoholic fathers. Sons of normal and late onset alcoholics were not distinguishable from each other.