Getting to the heart of low sensitivity to alcohol: Context moderates low cardiovascular response to alcohol in persons with a family history of alcohol use disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: Diminished cardiovascular sensitivity to oral alcohol in FH+ persons varied within a given drinking episode depending on emotional and alcohol-related features of the context, suggesting that environmental characteristics play a role in the expression of low sensitivity to alcohol among FH+ individuals. PMID: 31984514 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31984514?dopt=Abstract

Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - January 26, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: Bates ME, Mun EY, Buckman JF, Vaschillo E, Vaschillo B, Lehrer P, Udo T, Lesnewich LM Tags: Alcohol Clin Exp Res Source Type: research