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Alcohol and Human Evoked Potentials

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Event related potentials (ERPs) provide a noninvasive means for investigating brain function. Two main kinds of alcohol-related ERP research have been conducted: a) studies of the effects of acute alcohol administration, usually in nonalcoholic volunteers; b) investigation of ERP differences between alcoholic and nonalcoholic subjects. The main findings in these ERP studies are reviewed briefly in this paper

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  1. Temple University Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Charles Shagass

  2. Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Charles Shagass

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  1. Académie de Paris, Université René Descartes, Paris, France

    Pierre Pichot (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee) (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee)

  2. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Berner (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings), Rainer Wolf  & Kenneth Thau (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings),  & 

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Shagass, C. (1985). Alcohol and Human Evoked Potentials. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2365-5_19

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