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D A Bremer

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PubMed1989

Cognitive status of sons of alcoholic men.

Sons of community dwelling alcoholic, depressed, and normal men were administered a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests. A generalized cognitive deficit was not found in the sons of alcoholics. The sons of alcoholics demonstrated greater ataxia than offspring in the two control groups and also performed more poorly on tests measuring visual scanning and attention, planning ability, and impulse control. These findings raise the possibility that an anterior cerebral dysfunction underlies the cognitive deficit observed in children of alcoholics.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1986

Assortative mating among men and women alcoholics.

The contention that assortative mating for alcoholism is higher among women probands than among men probands is discussed. Theoretical and statistical explanations for observed differences in assortative mating as a function of proband sex are provided. Empirical studies of relevance to this issue are reviewed and various methodological variations and deficiencies that help explain the differences in assortative mating that are reported are noted.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1976

Attention and distractibility during reading in hyperactive boys.

Nonhyperactive and clinically defined hyperactive boys were administered reading tasks under "quiet" and "distracting" conditions. Hyperactive boys were less attentive to task relevant stimuli and more attentive to task irrelevant stimuli than their controls. Our results demonstrate that the previous findings of inattentiveness among hyperactive boys on laboratory tasks can be generalized to more typical school activities such as reading.

Attention↗