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Impairments of Prepulse Inhibition of the Startle Response in Abstinent Alcoholic Male Patients
Alcohol and Alcoholism , 05/14/2012
Marin M et al. – The data suggest that sensory information processing mechanisms could be damaged in abstinent alcoholic patients. The fact that these findings are common to other psychiatric disorders could indicate the existence of a common vulnerability marker and explain the high degree of comorbidity between alcoholism and other mental illnesses.