Static Ataxia as a Psychobiological Marker for Alcoholism
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 11 (4) , 345-348
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1987.tb01323.x
Abstract
Sons and daughters of male alcoholics were compared with the sons and daughters of controls on two measures of static ataxia. Increased sway was seen in the children of the alcoholic fathers who had an average of 3.7 first- and second-degree relatives meeting criteria for alcoholism. The possibility that static ataxia may be a psychobiological marker for the more genetically mediated variant of alcoholism is discussed.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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