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Subtle/obvious MMPI scales identify attention deficit disorder alcoholics. 1989

A M Horton, and J M Vaeth, and M Koretzky, and S Shapiro, and C Civello, and J Anilare
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.

Earlier research has demonstrated that alcoholics with or without attention deficit disorders, residual type (ADDRT) can be differentiated by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Clinical Scale Profiles. This study addressed the question of whether that differentiation was made by virtue of subtle or obvious aspects of the MMPI item pool. Groups of 30 of male alcoholics with or without ADDRT were individually matched on age and education variables. Statistically significant differences were found for the D-O, HY-O, HY-S, PD-O, PA-O, PA-S, MA-O, MA-S, ES and A scales.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008950 MMPI A personality inventory consisting of statements to be asserted or denied by the individual. The patterns of response are characteristic of certain personality attributes. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
D012016 Reference Values The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality. Normal Range,Normal Values,Reference Ranges,Normal Ranges,Normal Value,Range, Normal,Range, Reference,Ranges, Normal,Ranges, Reference,Reference Range,Reference Value,Value, Normal,Value, Reference,Values, Normal,Values, Reference
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000425 Alcohol Amnestic Disorder A mental disorder associated with chronic ethanol abuse (ALCOHOLISM) and nutritional deficiencies characterized by short term memory loss, confabulations, and disturbances of attention. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1139) Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndrome,Amnestic Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced,Alcohol Amnestic Syndrome,Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Psychosis,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychosis,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Syndrome,Alcohol-Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder,Alcohol Amnestic Disorders,Alcohol Amnestic Syndromes,Alcohol Induced Amnestic Psychosis,Alcohol Induced Amnestic Syndrome,Alcohol Induced Dysmnesic Psychosis,Alcohol Induced Dysmnesic Syndrome,Alcohol Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder,Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Psychoses,Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndromes,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychoses,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Syndromes,Amnestic Disorder, Alcohol,Amnestic Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced,Amnestic Psychosis, Alcohol Induced,Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced,Amnestic Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced,Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic,Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic,Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic,Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic
D000437 Alcoholism A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4) Alcohol Abuse,Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic,Ethanol Abuse,Alcohol Addiction,Alcohol Dependence,Alcohol Use Disorder,Abuse, Alcohol,Abuse, Ethanol,Addiction, Alcohol,Alcohol Use Disorders,Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication,Dependence, Alcohol,Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic,Use Disorders, Alcohol
D001288 Attention Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating. Focus of Attention,Selective Attention,Social Attention,Attention Focus,Attention, Selective,Attention, Social,Selective Attentions

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