Alcohol affects neuronal substrates of response inhibition but not of perceptual processing of stimuli signalling a stop response.

Alcohol impairs inhibitory control, including the ability to terminate an initiated action. While there is increasing knowledge about neural mechanisms involved in response inhibition, the level at which alcohol impairs such mechanisms remains poorly understood. Thirty-nine healthy social drinkers r...

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Main Authors: Kyriaki Nikolaou, Hugo Critchley, Theodora Duka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783488?pdf=render