Trial reportPsychopharmacology2010
Drinking and future thinking: acute effects of alcohol on prospective memory and future simulation.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- 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
- The benefits of mind wandering on a naturalistic prospective memory task.Scientific reports · 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
- Prospective memory in Parkinson disease during a virtual week: effects of both prospective and retrospective demands.Neuropsychology · 2013Trial
- Dose-related effects of alcohol on cognitive functioning.PloS one · 2012Trial
- How Specificity in Episodic Future Thinking Affects Prospective Memory: Cognitive Mechanisms and Latent Subgroup Differences.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Influence of Episodic Future Thinking on Prospective Memory in Older Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- How do cannabis users mentally travel in time? Evidence from an fMRI study of episodic future thinking.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Imagining the Future to Reshape the Past: A Path to Combine Cue Extinction and Memory Reconsolidation With Episodic Foresight for Addiction Treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Episodic future thinking together with observational learning benefits prospective memory in high-functioning Korsakoff's syndrome patients.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2020Article
- High openness and high extroversion are linked with better time-based prospective memory in multiple sclerosis.Journal of neurology · 2019Article
- Episodic future thinking improves children's prospective memory performance in a complex task setting with real life task demands.Psychological research · 2019Article
- 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
- Working Memory Training Improves Alcohol Users' Episodic Future Thinking: A Rate-Dependent Analysis.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2018Article
- Non-Dependent and Dependent Daily Cannabis Users Differ in Mental Health but Not Prospective Memory Ability.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt has recently been shown that acute alcohol globally impairs 'prospective memory' (PM)-remembering to do something in the future (Leitz et al. in Psychopharmacology 205:379-387, 2009). In healthy, sober individuals, simulating future events at encoding enhances PM performance.
aimsWe therefore aimed to determine if future event simulation could attenuate the impairing effects of acute alcohol on PM.
methodsUsing a double-blind independent group design, 32 healthy volunteers were administered a 0.6-g/kg dose of ethanol or matched placebo. PM performance was assessed using a behavioural task, the 'Virtual Week', which was adapted to enable future event simulation in both remote and recent contexts. Episodic memory was indexed with a source memory task and planning with the Tower of London task.
resultsWe replicated the finding of Leitz et al. that acute alcohol consumption impairs prospective memory for event-based tasks. Future event simulation significantly improved PM performance on these tasks and eliminated the PM deficit caused by acute alcohol consumption.
conclusionsThis is the first evidence that future event simulation can overcome alcohol-induced deficits in prospective memory and may have important clinical implications for the rehabilitation of chronic alcohol users.
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