Genetic basis of event-related potentials and their relationship to alcoholism and alcohol use

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 44-57

  Porjesz, Bernice ^a   Begleiter, Henri ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NEUROTOXICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROGENY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032462717     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199801000-00006     Document Type: Review

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