Trial reportPsychopharmacology2009
Global impairment of prospective memory following acute alcohol.
Trial report in Psychopharmacology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
- A conceptual model of alcohol use and adherence to antiretroviral therapy: systematic review and theoretical implications for mechanisms of action.Health psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- The effects of licit and illicit recreational drugs on prospective memory: a meta-analytic review.Psychopharmacology · 2019Pooled it
- Episodic foresight is impaired following acute alcohol intoxication.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023Trial
- Deficits in episodic future thinking following acute alcohol consumption.Psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Selective effects of acute alcohol intake on the prospective and retrospective components of a prospective-memory task with emotional targets.Psychopharmacology · 2016Trial
- Alcohol Doesn't Always Compromise Cognitive Function: Exploring Moderate Doses in Young Adults.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Trial
- Dose-related effects of alcohol on cognitive functioning.PloS one · 2012Trial
- Drinking and future thinking: acute effects of alcohol on prospective memory and future simulation.Psychopharmacology · 2010Trial
- Decreases in recollective experience following acute alcohol: a dose-response study.Psychopharmacology · 2010Trial
- Alcohol Abuse and Prospective Memory in Young Adults With and Without Childhood Trauma: The Moderating Role of Psychological Inflexibility.Annals of neurosciences · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Future Thinking and Prospective Memory in Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports · 2024Article
- Within-person associations between alcohol use and memory lapses among middle-aged and older adults.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- Sex, executive function, and prospective memory regulate the chain-mediation pathway of alcohol use and impulsivity.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Role of Gamma Oscillations in the Pathophysiology of Substance Use Disorders.Journal of personalized medicine · 2020Review
- Episodic future thinking together with observational learning benefits prospective memory in high-functioning Korsakoff's syndrome patients.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2020Article
- Alcohol Hangover and Multitasking: Effects on Mood, Cognitive Performance, Stress Reactivity, and Perceived Effort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- A single dose of cocaine enhances prospective memory performance.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2018Article
- Blood Alcohol Concentration-Related Lower Performance in Immediate Visual Memory and Working Memory in Adolescent Binge Drinkers.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Prospective memory impairments in heavy social drinkers are partially overcome by future event simulation.Psychopharmacology · 2016Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
rationaleWhilst the deleterious effects of alcohol on retrospective remembering have been widely documented, no study has yet objectively determined alcohol's effects on prospective memory (PM)--remembering to do something in the future.
objectivesWith this aim, the present study determined the acute effects of alcohol upon PM using a laboratory measure that simulates the PM tasks in everyday life--'Virtual Week'--both (a) in its standard form with regular, irregular, event-based and time-based PM tasks; and (b) an adapted version which enabled exploration of how future event simulation at encoding impacted upon subsequent PM.
methodsForty healthy volunteers were administered 0.6 g/kg ethanol or a matched placebo in a double-blind fashion and completed the two versions of Virtual Week along with prose recall (to tap retrospective memory) and an executive function task.
resultsAlcohol acutely produced global impairments across all (regular, irregular, event-based and time-based) PM tasks. It also produced impairments of episodic memory which positively correlated with PM performance of irregular tasks. Future-event simulation tended to enhance PM in the placebo but not in the alcohol group.
conclusionsThese findings on an objective measure of PM suggest that 4-5 units of alcohol will compromise PM abilities in everyday life.
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