ArticleAddictive behaviors2015
Alcohol-induced blackouts and maternal family history of problematic alcohol use.
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- Alcohol-Induced Blackouts: A Review of Recent Clinical Research with Practical Implications and Recommendations for Future Studies.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2016Pooled it
- Alcohol-Induced Amnesia and Personalized Drinking Feedback: Blackouts Predict Intervention Response.Behavior therapy · 2019Trial
- Blackouts as a Moderator of Young Adult Veteran Response to Personalized Normative Feedback for Heavy Drinking.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Trial
- Reduced central alpha power at rest is associated with the risk of alcohol-induced blackout and frequency of non-REM parasomnia episodes in adults.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- Sex differences in blackout: evidence of a relationship between disorders of arousal during sleep and alcohol-related blackout in females.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Factors that increase risk for alcohol-induced blackouts in high-intensity drinking young adults.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- A Dual-Process Decision-Making Model Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Alcohol-Induced Blackouts and Alcohol Use Disorder Risk Among College Student Drinkers.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between Men's Sociosexuality, Drinking Intake, and Blackouts.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- A mixed-methods approach to improve the measurement of alcohol-induced blackouts: ABOM-2.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Mortality in adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide register study.European journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- The morning after the night before: Alcohol-induced blackouts impair next day recall in sober young adults.PloS one · 2021Article
- Intentions and motives to experience alcohol-induced blackout among young adults in college.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- The prevalence and impact of elevated anxiety sensitivity among hazardous drinking college students.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Event-Level Correlates of Drinking Events Characterized by Alcohol-Induced Blackouts.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- The role of parent and offspring sex on risk for externalizing psychopathology in offspring with parental alcohol use disorder: a national Swedish study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Article
- Alcohol-induced blackouts, subjective intoxication, and motivation to decrease drinking: Prospective examination of the transition out of college.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- Predictors of Patterns of Alcohol-Related Blackouts Over Time in Youth From the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism: The Roles of Genetics and Cannabis.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Article
- Latent growth classes of alcohol-related blackouts over the first 2 years of college.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2016Article
- Alcohol-related blackouts across 55 weeks of college: Effects of European-American ethnicity, female sex, and low level of response to alcohol.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
- Alcohol-Induced Blackouts as Predictors of Other Drinking Related Harms Among Emerging Young Adults.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundConsequences of heavy drinking include alcohol-induced blackouts, which are periods of amnesia for all or part of a drinking event. One risk factor for blackouts is family history of problematic alcohol use (FH+); however, research rarely distinguishes maternal from paternal FH+. The objective of this study was to examine whether maternal or paternal FH+ better predicts likelihood of experiencing blackouts than a general measure of overall FH+, and whether gender moderates this association.
methodParticipants (N=1164; 65.4% are female) were first-time college freshmen (age range=17-19) who participated in a 6-year, 10-assessment, longitudinal study in the United States. Alcohol-induced blackouts, the dependent measure, were dichotomized (yes/no) based on endorsement of memory problems after drinking using a single item during Years 4-6. FH+, captured at baseline, was coded if participants self-reported that their mother, father, or any of their four grandparents were a possible or definite problem drinker.
resultsOverall, 773 (66.4%) participants reported experiencing blackouts during Years 4-6. Women were more likely to report blackouts than men; however, compared with women with a maternal FH+, men with a maternal FH+ were more than twice as likely to report blackouts. DISCUSSION: Men appear to be more susceptible than women to the effects of a maternal FH+. Genetic and environmental explanations for this finding are discussed. In sum, these findings are an important step toward understanding a significant yet understudied negative consequence of heavy alcohol use.
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