Alcohol effects on response inhibition: Variability across tasks and individuals.

ABSTRACT: Considerable research has investigated the acute effects of alcohol on response inhibition, but a number of issues remain unresolved. Given that most studies use only a single laboratory task to assess inhibition, it is often difficult to determine whether alcohol's effects are task specific or generalize across measures of the same construct. Moreover, relatively few studies have directly compared effects of alcohol under ascending and descending blood alcohol concentrations (BACs), and those that have often failed to disentangle BAC limb effects from the effects of repeated testing. This study was intended to provide a test of alcohol's effects on behavioral inhibition using multiple laboratory measures in a relatively large sample and comparing effects under ascending and descending BAC

SUBMITTER: Bartholow BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991490 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature