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Specific personality traits and dopamine, serotonin genes in anxiety-depressive alcoholism among Han Chinese in Taiwan.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 1 Oct 2007
Lin Shu-Cheng, Wu Pei-Lin, Ko Huei-Chen, Wu Jo Yung-Wei, Huang San-Yuan, Lin Wei-Wen, Lu Ru-Band
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BACKGROUND: Cloninger [Cloninger CR. 1987. Neurogenetic adaptive mechanisms in alcoholism. Science 236: 410-416.] had proposed a psychobiological model suggesting that three main personality dimensions distinguish the alcoholism into two subtypes (type I and type II). However, the classification was equivocal for clinical diagnosis. Recently, anxiety-depressive alcohol dependence (ANX/DEP ALC) has been posited as...
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