The EEG examination, together with P300 potential as the method for differentiation of patients with genetic and environmental conditioning of addiction to alcohol
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2017, Vol 15, Issue 4
Abstract
The electrophysiological characteristics of alcoholics, such as P300 amplitude of the Event-Related Potential (ERP), are related with high risk in their offspring, and are considered to be biological endophenotypes of predisposition to develop alcohol use disorders. The contemporary knowledge justify early diagnostics of the degree of risk of alcoholism among adolescents, or even children, including their families, consisting in the examination of P300 potential as an endophenotype, prior to achievement of the age at alcohol initiation. The results of such research approaches may be not only of cognitive, but also of prophylactic importance, in an early recognition of an increased susceptibility to alcohol. Simplicity and non-invasiveness, and exceptionally low costs of described methods, should obtain at present and in the future, a wider, or even mass scope of a useful examination. The knowledge concerning the possession of such an endophenotype and genetically-related susceptibility, in the individual, family, and social dimension and transmission, and in the rearing of children and adolescents, could protect many people, from entering the route of addiction, which is most frequently the effect acting unawares and with negative life consequences, both generational and transgenerational for subsequent generations.
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Roman Chwedorowicz, Grzegorz Raszewski, Tadeusz Studziński
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