N4 component responses to pre-pulse startle stimuli in young adults: Relationship to alcohol dependence

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-244

  Ehlers, Cindy Louise ^a   Phillips, Evelyn ^a   Criado, José Ramon ^a   Gilder, David Austin ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; ERPs; Frontal disinhibition; Mexican Americans; N400; Prepulse inhibition; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLINKING; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX FACTORS; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958252448     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 01651781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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