Do alcohol cues facilitate or impair cognitive processing in recently detoxified alcoholics? Commentary on Noel et al. (2007)

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-300

  Field, Matt ^a   Cole, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cognition; Impulsivity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DETOXIFICATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALCOHOLISM; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHANOL; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 34247561373     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-0779-y     Document Type: Note

References (5)

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