Impulsivity as a multifaceted construct related to excessive drinking among UK students

AJ Caswell, MA Celio, MJ Morgan… - Alcohol and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aims A substantial number of university students exceed alcohol guidelines. Impulsivity has
been repeatedly implicated in heavy alcohol use, yet despite knowledge that impulsivity is …

Binge drinking in young university students is associated with alterations in executive functions related to their starting age

D Salas-Gomez, M Fernandez-Gorgojo, A Pozueta… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Our aim was to evaluate whether or not alcohol consumption in the form of binge drinking is
associated with alterations of memory and executive functions in a population of university …

Functional and structural brain connectivity of young binge drinkers: a follow-up study

A Correas, P Cuesta, E López-Caneda… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Adolescence is a period of ongoing brain maturation characterized by hierarchical changes
in the functional and structural networks. For this reason, the young brain is particularly …

Binge drinkers are fast, able to stop–but they fail to adjust

R Bø, M Aker, J Billieux, NI Landrø - Journal of the International …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Binge drinking leads to brain damage. However, at present few studies have taken into
account the continuity in the binge drinking phenomenon, and treated binge drinking as a …

Executive performance and dysexecutive symptoms in binge drinking adolescents

S Gil-Hernandez, LM Garcia-Moreno - Alcohol, 2016 - Elsevier
Alcohol is probably the most common legal drug of abuse in Western countries. The
prevalence of binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol consumption among adolescents is a …

Alcohol intake and binge drinking among Italian adolescents: The role of drinking motives

F Laghi, E Baumgartner, R Baiocco… - Journal of addictive …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Binge drinking, a pattern associated with worse outcome, is becoming increasingly popular
among youths, thus negatively impacting social life. To investigate drinking patterns and …

Cognitive control over immediate reward in binge alcohol drinkers

A Poulton, C Mackenzie, K Harrington… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cognitive control deficits, as captured by inhibitory control measures, are
indicative of increased impulsivity and are considered a marker for substance use disorder …

Heavy episodic drinking or binge drinking: a booming consumption pattern

A Adan, I Benaiges, DA Forero - … of drug addictions and substance misuse, 2016 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we revise the results currently available on the intermittent pattern of
consumption of alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of reaching a marked …

Prevalence of at-risk drinking among Brazilian truck drivers and its interference on the performance of executive cognitive tasks

LG de Oliveira, K Leopoldo, MJC Gouvea… - Drug and alcohol …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Binge drinking (BD) has been associated with an increase in the risk of alcohol-
related injuries. Alcohol continues to be the main substance consumed by truck drivers, a …

Contribuciones de la atención y el funcionamiento ejecutivo a la memoria episódica en jóvenes con consumo intensivo de alcohol

CM Porras Truque - 2016 - docta.ucm.es
Imaginemos que queremos recordar un suceso concreto de nuestra vida; cerramos los ojos,
mentalmente nos trasladamos en el tiempo y tomamos del pasado aquel instante que nos …