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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Frontal brain dysfunction in alcoholism with and without antisocial personality disorder
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2009; 5: 309–326.


Multiple regression analyses showed that alcoholism, specific drinking variables (amount and duration of heavy drinking), and ASPD were significant predictors of frontal system and affective abnormalities. These effects were different for men and women. The findings suggested that the combination of alcoholism and ASPD leads to greater deficits than the sum of each.


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