SynthesisAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2022
A Systematic Review of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) in Alcohol Research.
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- Adaptations of the balloon analog risk task for neuroimaging settings: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Risk-taking in the human brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of the balloon analog risk task (BART).Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
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- Examining concordance between emotion-dependent risk-taking in the laboratory and in the real-world.Behaviour research and therapy · 2025Article
- Individuals recently abstinent from methamphetamine show selective cognitive and behavioral differences when compared to age-matched controls.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Enhancing pathogen identification through AI-assisted metagenomic sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Cognitive impairment in alcohol use disorder and clinical practice guidelines for management of long-stay alcohol use disorder patients.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Greater Risk Taking in Cosmetic Surgery Acceptance and History: An Experimental and Computational Study.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2024Article
- Weakened weekdays: lockdown disrupts the weekly cycle of risk tolerance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- To produce or not to produce? Contrasting the effect of substance abuse in social decision-making situations.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Enhanced putamen functional connectivity underlies altered risky decision-making in age-related cognitive decline.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Does pre-COVID impulsive behaviour predict adherence to hygiene and social distancing measures in youths following the COVID-19 pandemic onset? Evidence from a South African longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Relationship between virtual reality balloon analogue risk task and risky decision-making.PloS one · 2023Article
- Risky decision-making strategies mediate the relationship between amygdala activity and real-world financial savings among individuals from lower income households: A pilot study.Behavioural brain research · 2022Article
- Relationship of the balloon analog risk task to neurocognitive impairment differs by HIV serostatus and history of major depressive disorder.Journal of neurovirology · 2022Article
- Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analog Risk Task.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty by Substance Abusers and Healthy Controls.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Risk-taking propensity has been crucial to the investigation of alcohol use and consequences. One measure, the balloon analogue risk task (BART), has been used consistently over the past two decades. However, it is unclear how this measure is related to alcohol outcomes. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the BART and alcohol outcomes. First, direct associations between the BART and alcohol use are reviewed including correlations, group comparisons, the BART's prediction of alcohol outcomes and BART performance after consuming alcohol. Then, potential moderators that explain when and for whom the BART is related to alcohol outcomes are reviewed. Finally, potential mechanisms that explain how the BART and alcohol outcomes are related are reviewed. This review reveals patterns in the BART suggesting risk-taking propensity may be related to changes in alcohol use over time; however, there is little evidence to suggest BART scores increase after consuming alcohol. Yet, additional research suggests adjusted average pump scores may be too simplistic for the amount of information the BART captures and understanding individual's patterns of responses on the BART is important for investigating its relation to alcohol outcomes. Finally, this review opens up several future directions for research to understand how risk-taking propensity is related to alcohol outcomes.
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