Alcohol attentional bias: Drinking salience or cognitive impairment?

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-178

  Fadardi, Javad Salehi ^a,b   Cox, W Miles ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; Attentional bias; Cognitive bias; Current concern; Executive cognitive functioning; Stroop paradigm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONRESPONSE BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSITIZATION; SHIPLEY INSTITUTE OF LIVING SCALE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33644844746     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-0268-0     Document Type: Article

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