Assessing driving-relevant attentional impairment after a multiday drinking session: A two-phase pilot study

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the absence of blood alcohol acutely may not be indicative of unimpaired cognitive performance and that other factors related to multiday drinking may produce driving-related attentional deficits. The findings reinforce the need to measure attentional performance in real-world drinking contexts despite the methodological complexities of doing so. A larger study is warranted to replicate the findings and should include attentional measures that either are more sensitive to the effects of acute alcohol intoxication than those in our study or are based on a driving simulator.PMID:35404505 | DOI:10.1111/acer.14788
Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - Category: Addiction Authors: Source Type: research