TY - JOUR PY - 1991// TI - A biobehavioural model for the inherited predisposition to alcoholism JO - Alcohol and alcoholism supplement A1 - Pihl, R. O. A1 - Peterson, J. B. SP - 151 EP - 156 VL - 1 IS - N2 - Sons of male alcoholics are at increased risk for the development of alcoholism, and are characterized as well by other traits, that may serve as markers for the alcoholic predisposition. These other traits include mild cognitive abnormalities, cardiac hyper-reactivity to signalled electric shock, susceptibility to alcohol-intoxication elimination of that hyper-reactivity, and increased baseline heart-rate while drinking.

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