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Association between hyperactivity and executive cognitive functioning in childhood and substance use in early adolescence.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Feb 1999
Aytaclar S, Tarter R E, Kirisci L, Lu S
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether deficient executive cognitive functioning (ECF) in association with high behavioral activity level comprise components of the liability to substance abuse. METHOD: A high-risk (HR) group having fathers with a lifetime DSM-III-R diagnosis of a psychoactive substance use disorder was compared with a low-average-risk (LAR) group whose fathers had neither psychoactive substance use...
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