Forget 'Drinking to forget': Enhanced consolidation of emotionally charged memory by alcohol

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 242-250

  Bruce, Kenneth R ^a   Pihl, Robert O ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREATH TESTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030841821     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.5.3.242     Document Type: Article

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