Differences in psychomotor reaction time in male monozygotic twins discordant for lifetime cigarette smoking

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1219-1225

  Gibbons, Laura E ^a   Videman, Tapio ^b,d   Simonen, Riitta L ^b   Battié, Michele C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SMOKING; TWINS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SMOKING; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030347014     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.3f.1219     Document Type: Article

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