Acute tolerance to alcohol impairment of behavioral and cognitive mechanisms related to driving: Drinking and driving on the descending limb

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 220, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 697-706

  Weafer, Jessica ^a   Fillmore, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute tolerance; Driving; Inhibition; Motor control; Subjective intoxication

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD ALCOHOL CURVE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; CAR DRIVING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869781122     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2519-6     Document Type: Article

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