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The effects of a single, large dose of alcohol have been studied extensively, but how alcohol affects the brain under more realistic social drinking situations has received scant attention. The neurophysiological effects of a cumulative dose of alcohol were investigated as subjects drank three glasses of alcoholic or placebo red wine, 1 h apart. In a double-blind procedure, electroencephalographic (EEG) activity was recorded for social drinkers during rest and performance of a working memory task at two levels of difficulty. Background EEG power in the theta, slow alpha, and beta bands increased with alcohol consumption. Along with this systemic increase in background cortical resonant activity, event-related potential (ERP) amplitudes decreased between 200 and 350 ms poststimulus and P300 latency increased, effects that occurred while relevant stimulus factors were being evaluated. These neurophysiological effects endured 3 h after drinking, whereas blood/ breath alcohol concentration had decreased considerably and cognitive performance returned to normal. These findings seem to indicate that moderate social alcohol consumption has cumulative effects on brain function that persist
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- Author
- Aaron B. Ilan; Alan Gevins
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0741-8329)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)