Acute alcohol effects on attentional bias are mediated by subcortical areas associated with arousal and salience attribution

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1365-1373

  Nikolaou, Kyriaki ^a   Field, Matt ^b   Critchley, Hugo ^a,c,d   Duka, Theodora ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d SUSSEX PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alcohol; attentional bias; Flanker task; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SUBCORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84878530006     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.34     Document Type: Article

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