CAN ALCOHOL LEAD TO INHIBITION OR DISINHIBITION? APPLYING ALCOHOL MYOPIA TO ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION | Zendy

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CAN ALCOHOL LEAD TO INHIBITION OR DISINHIBITION? APPLYING ALCOHOL MYOPIA TO ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION

Author(s) -

Naomi K. Grant,

Tara K. MacDonald

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

alcohol and alcoholism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1464-3502

pISSN - 0735-0414

DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agh177

Subject(s) - disinhibition , impulsivity , alcohol , psychology , aggression , animal model , salience (neuroscience) , alcohol abuse , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognitive psychology , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , endocrinology

Animal experimentation often demonstrates that alcohol leads to disinhibited behaviour, such as increased aggression, increased social behaviour, or increased impulsivity. However, human experimentation demonstrates that alcohol can have either disinhibiting or inhibiting effects on behaviour, depending on salient environmental cues. Our aim was to illustrate how alcohol myopia theory could be applied to the literature assessing the effects of alcohol on behaviour in animals.

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