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Trial reportScientific reports2018

Moderate acute alcohol intoxication increases visual motion repulsion.

Zhengchun Wang, Huan Wang, Tzvetomir Tzvetanov, Yifeng Zhou

Erratum issuedAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Zhengchun WangDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical School of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315211, P.R. China. wangzhengchun@nbu.edu.cn.
Huan WangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, P.R. China.
Tzvetomir TzvetanovHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, P.R. China. tzvetan@hfut.edu.cn.
Yifeng ZhouHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, P.R. China. zhouy@ustc.edu.cn.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the serious consequences of alcohol abuse is the reduced ability to process visual information. Diminished vision from excessive consumption of alcohol has been implicated in industrial, home, and automobile accidents. Alcohol is also generally recognized as an inhibitor in the brain by potentiating GABA-ergic transmission. In this study, we focused on visual motion processing and explored whether moderate alcohol intoxication induced changes in inhibitory mediated motion repulsion in a center-surround configuration. We conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subjects study on the effect of alcohol on visual motion repulsion. Each subject underwent three experimental conditions (no alcohol, placebo and moderate alcohol) on separate days. The order of the placebo and moderate alcohol conditions was counterbalanced. The results showed that the effects of the surround context on the perception of the center motion direction were similar in both the sober (no alcohol) and placebo conditions. However, contextual modulations were significantly stronger during intoxication compared to both the sober and placebo conditions. These results demonstrate that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with altered neural function in visual cortical areas and that motion repulsion deficits might reflect the inhibitory effects of alcohol on the central nervous system.

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AdultAlcoholic IntoxicationAlcoholsDouble-Blind MethodFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansMaleMotion PerceptionPlacebosVisual CortexYoung AdultAlcoholsPlacebos

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PMID29371672
PMCPMC5785517

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