Binge drinking, reflection impulsivity, and unplanned sexual behavior: impaired decision-making in young social drinkers.

Background: The repeated pattern of heavy intoxication followed by withdrawal from alcohol (i.e., "binge drinking") has been found to have substantial adverse effects on prefrontal neural systems associated with decision-making and impulse control.

Coping strategies used by survivors of childhood sexual abuse on the journey to recovery.

This interpretative phenomenological analysis study explored seven adult survivors' experiences of coping with childhood sexual abuse and identified their coping strategies on the road to recovery. Data for the analysis was collected using semistructured interviews. The analytical process yielded two key theme clusters: avoidant coping strategies and problem-focused coping strategies.

Binge drinking, cognitive performance and mood in a population of young social drinkers.

Background: Binge drinking may lead to brain damage and have implications for the development of alcohol dependence. The aims of the present study were to determine individual characteristics as well as to compare mood states and cognitive function between binge and nonbinge drinkers and thus further validate the new tool used to identify these populations among social drinkers.

Methods: The lowest and the highest 33.

The priming effect of alcohol pre-load on attentional bias to alcohol-related stimuli.

Background: Previous research has shown attentional bias toward alcohol-related stimuli in non-dependent social drinkers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether attentional bias towards alcohol-related stimuli would increase after priming with either one of two doses of alcohol (0.3 or 0.

Impairment in cognitive functions after multiple detoxifications in alcoholic inpatients.

Background: Repeated experience of withdrawal from alcohol results in a kindling-like process leading to increased likelihood and severity of convulsions during detoxification. The aim of this study was to determine whether repeated withdrawals affect cognitive function.

Methods: We investigated alcoholic patients undergoing detoxification in an inpatient setting, using tasks sensitive to dysfunction of prefrontal areas.

Kindling of withdrawal: a study of craving and anxiety after multiple detoxifications in alcoholic inpatients.

Background: The increased severity of withdrawal during successive detoxifications from alcohol is well documented for seizures, but the importance of the number of withdrawal events for other withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety and for alcohol craving is not known. Studies in animals are consistent with increases in reinforcing properties of alcohol with a greater number of withdrawal experiences. Thus, we predicted that patients who had undergone multiple detoxifications would show greater desire for alcohol and might experience more anxiety compared with patients with fewer detoxifications or compared with social drinkers.