antisocial tendencies (Lovallo et al. 2006). Consistently, children of antisocial alcoholics display relatively poorer attention, working memory, and abstract planning abilities compared to children from control families (Poon et al. 2000). Performance deficits on the Stroop task may be related to decreased activation in frontolimbic circuitry that has been observed in adolescents with a positive family history (Silveri et al. 2009). Possibly, WCST performance involves decreased activation of frontolimbic circuitry among offspring of alcoholics, though studies addressing this issue have not been done.
