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Abstract
Several parameters of the pupillary light and dark reflexes were employed as indices of sympathetic-para-sympathetic activity in comparing alcoholics to nonalcoholics at rest, during stress, and following the termination of stress. Moreover, as the alcoholics were given the choice of drinking at frequent fixed intervals, the control values of autonomic activity were correlated with the subsequent decision to drink or not to drink. Overall differences in autonomic reactivity between nonalcoholics and alcoholics were found and drinkers were differentiable from alcoholic abstainers on several parameters.
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Leonard S. Rubin
Joyce Laing works in the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Playfield House, Cupar, Fife, and is a Consultant Art Therapist to Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons and Chairwoman of the Scottish Society of Art and Psychology.