Alcohol selectively reduces brain activity during the affective processing of negative information

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 919-927

  Franken, Ingmar H A ^a   Nijs, Ilse M T ^a   Muris, Peter ^a   Van Strien, Jan W ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcoholism; Emotion; ERP; Psychopharmacology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AFFECT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; EMOTIONS; ETHANOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 34248657298     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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