Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 79-84, 2001
© 2001 Medical Council on Alcoholism
Taste responses in sons of male alcoholics
1 Department of Otolaryngology, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw,
2 Clinical Psychopharmacology Laboratory, National Centre of Sport Medicine, Warsaw,
3 Astra-Zeneca, Clinical Research Unit Central Europe, Warsaw,
4 Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw,
5 Department of Prevention and Treatment of Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw and
6 Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
Received 10 April 2000; first review notified 3 July 2000; accepted 31 July 2000
— The aim of the present study was to compare taste responses (intensity and pleasantness/unpleasantness) to sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions in sons of male alcoholics (SOMAs) and control subjects with no family history of alcoholism. In addition, responses to Coca-Cola flavour were evaluated in both groups. Unpleasantness of salty solutions was significantly enhanced and intensity of sour solutions tended to be higher in the SOMAs. There were no other differences between the groups. Thus, contrary to previous suggestions, genetically determined vulnerability to alcohol dependence may not be associated with altered responses to sweet substances. The present findings would rather suggest that increased aversive responses to salt taste may predict future development of alcohol dependence.
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