Clubgoers and their trendy cocktails: Implications of mixing caffeine into alcohol on information processing and subjective reports of intoxication

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 450-458

  Marczinski, Cecile A ^a   Fillmore, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Caffeine; College students; Drug interactions; Information processing; Intoxication

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CAFFEINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; BEER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ALCOHOL INTERACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VODKA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33751203527     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.14.4.450     Document Type: Article

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