Dose-related effects of alcohol on cognitive functioning

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dc.contributor.authorDry, M.
dc.contributor.authorBurns, N.
dc.contributor.authorNettelbeck, T.
dc.contributor.authorFarquharson, A.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, J.
dc.contributor.editorMendelson, J.E.
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractWe assessed the suitability of six applied tests of cognitive functioning to provide a single marker for dose-related alcohol intoxication. Numerous studies have demonstrated that alcohol has a deleterious effect on specific areas of cognitive processing but few have compared the effects of alcohol across a wide range of different cognitive processes. Adult participants (N = 56, 32 males, 24 females aged 18–45 years) were randomized to control or alcohol treatments within a mixed design experiment involving multiple-dosages at approximately one hour intervals (attained mean blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of 0.00, 0.048, 0.082 and 0.10%), employing a battery of six psychometric tests; the Useful Field of View test (UFOV; processing speed together with directed attention); the Self-Ordered Pointing Task (SOPT; working memory); Inspection Time (IT; speed of processing independent from motor responding); the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP; strategic optimization); the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART; vigilance, response inhibition and psychomotor function); and the Trail-Making Test(TMT; cognitive flexibility and psychomotor function). Results demonstrated that impairment is not uniform across different domains of cognitive processing and that both the size of the alcohol effect and the magnitude of effect change across different dose levels are quantitatively different for different cognitive processes. Only IT met the criteria for a marker for wide-spread application: reliable dose-related decline in a basic process as a function of rising BAC level and easy to use non-invasive task properties.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityMathew J. Dry, Nicholas R. Burns, Ted Nettelbeck, Aaron L. Farquharson and Jason M. White
dc.identifier.citationPLoS One, 2012; 7(11):1-8
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0050977
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.orcidBurns, N. [0000-0003-3456-6734]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/75838
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightsCopyright: © 2012 Dry et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050977
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectEthanol
dc.subjectCognition
dc.subjectPsychometrics
dc.subjectDose-Response Relationship, Drug
dc.subjectAdolescent
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectMiddle Aged
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.titleDose-related effects of alcohol on cognitive functioning
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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