Social drinkers
Alcohol Affects the Brain's Resting-State Network in Social Drinkers
... the synapses all over the brain. Evidence suggests that enhanced GABAergic transmission leads to increased large-scale brain connectivity. Our hypothesis is that acute alcohol intake would increase the functional ...
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Acute alcohol effects on facial expressions of emotions in social drinkers: a systematic review
... on social interaction. In moderate- and high-level social interaction, alcohol mostly influences facial expressions in a socially desirable way, thus underscoring the view of alcohol as social ...
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Brief Exposure to Pictures Depicting Poor Environments Leads to Increased Consumption of Beer in Adult Social Drinkers
... in social drinkers (Fernie, Cole, Goudie, & Field, 2010), and is associated with a range of other potentially harmful behaviors such as cigarette smoking, drug use, gambling, theft, and unsafe sexual ...
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Characteristics of social drinkers with and without a hangover after heavy alcohol consumption
... that the presence and severity of hangover symptoms may vary during the day. Future research should therefore rep- licate these findings and examine participants at multiple time points during the day. From the data ...
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Binge drinking, reflection impulsivity, and unplanned sexual behavior: impaired decision-making in young social drinkers
... reflection impulsivity, binge drinking, expectancies, and unplanned sexual behaviour. 171[r] ...
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The effect of colour and size on attentional bias to alcohol-related pictures
... Recent research has demonstrated that cognitive mechanisms such as self-control can modulate attentional bias towards alcohol-related images (Teunissen, Spijkerman, Vohs, Schoenmakers, & Engels, 2012). Moreover, it ...
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Attentional capture by alcohol-related stimuli may be activated involuntarily by top-down search goals
... Previous research has found that the attention of social drinkers is preferentially oriented towards alcohol related stimuli (attentional capture). This is argued to play a role in escalating craving for ...
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The RT-18: a new screening tool to assess young adult risk-taking behavior
... Mean (standard deviation) and distribution of the RT-18 data were computed for all subjects and for men and women separately. Distributions of RT-18 scores were also computed individually for social ...
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The impact of alexithymia on desire for alcohol during a social stress test
... among social drinkers in relation to an acute social ...a social stressor, alexithymic individuals demonstrate a significantly higher desire to consume alcohol than their non alexithymic ...
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Gender as Predictor of Subjective Well-Being and Happiness in Adult Peoples With Respect To Nature of Drinking.
... were Social Drinkers (20 Males and 20 Females) and the remaining 40 of them were exclusively Teetotalers (20 Males and 20 ...and Social Drinkers were traced from various hotels, bars, pubs and ...
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Increased brain uptake and oxidation of acetate in heavy drinkers
... heavy drinkers showed a profile that was similar to what has been seen in patients with type 1 diabetes who have experienced antecedent recurrent hypoglycemia ...heavy drinkers experience hypo- glycemia at ...
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Alcohol induced risky sexual behavior among socially anxious drinkers
... the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS; Mattick & Clarke, 1998) and comprised the HSA ...identifying social anxiety disorder among undergraduates (Rodebaugh, Woods, Heimberg, Liebowitz, & ...
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Dynamic modeling of behavior change in problem drinkers
... S), drinkers (D), and recovered alcohol users (R) has the same structure as a typical SIR ...few social interactions with other ...that social contacts or extent of mixing within communities ...
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Diagnostic sensitivity of carbohydrate deficient transferrin in heavy drinkers
... We previously investigated the diagnostic utility of %CDT in patients with liver disease, and found that heavy drinkers with a BMI in the overweight or obese range had significantly lower %CDT values than lean ...
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Coffee Marketing: What Matters to Coffee Drinkers?
... This descriptive study examined the product, pricing, placing and promotional strategies that have influenced the purchase of BA local instant coffee. A two tier sampling approach was utilized. Simple Random Sampling was ...
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Implicit priming of conflicting motivational states in heavy drinkers
... alternative stimuli, (e.g. pictures of furniture). There are several ways to measure attentional bias, one of the most popular of which has been the visual probe task (VP) [10]. In a typical version of this task, two ...
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Exploring personality and motivational characteristics of student pre-drinkers
... student drinkers to examine differences between nights that included pre-drinking and nights that did ...student drinkers reported pre-drinking within the one month prior to their ...
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The relationship of serum alanine aminotransferase normal-range levels to arterial stiffness and metabolic syndrome in non-drinkers and drinkers: a Chinese community-based analysis
... of high blood pressure and glucose increased with an elevation in serum ALT levels in non-drinkers, but not in drinkers. In other words, the relationship of serum ALT levels to high blood pressure and ...
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Implicit priming of conflicting motivational orientations in heavy drinkers
... Background: Approach and avoidance motivation for alcohol are relatively independent, and they operate in both automatic (or implicit) and controlled processes. In this study, we adapted methods previously used in the ...
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Dynamic modeling of problem drinkers undergoing behavioral treatment
... Mathematical modeling is one approach to understanding social behavior. The book [18], contains several examples of the use of mathematics to model human development, such as using a predator- prey model to ...
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