There is further evidence of deficits on classical neuropsychological tests of executive function [e.g. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Stroop Task] in the offspring of alcoholics. Sons of alcoholic fathers make greater perseverative errors on the WCST compared to offspring of control subjects (Peterson et al. 1992), reflecting an inability to inhibit response patterns based on experimenter feedback. Perseverative errors appear to be a relatively common difficulty in impulsive/compulsive disorders including addiction (Goldstein and Volkow 2002). Only children with multi-generational alcoholism and not all children with a family history of alcoholism show impaired performance on the WCST over time (Corral et al. 2003). Performance on the Stroop task is impaired in individuals with a family history of AUD compared to persons with no family history (Diaz et al. 2008), and this difference appears to be more common in those with 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
