Acute effects of alcohol on feedback processing and outcome evaluation during risky decision-making: an ERP study

• Published in: Psychopharmacologia Vol. 217; no. 1; pp. 111 - 125
• Main Authors: Euser, Anja S., van Meel, Catharina S., Snelleman, Michelle, Franken, Ingmar H. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.09.2011; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Alcohol use; Alcoholic Beverages; Behavior; Beverages; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Decision making; Decision Making - drug effects; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Electroencephalography; Enterprise resource planning; Ethanol - blood; Ethanol - pharmacology; Event-Related Potentials, P300 - drug effects; Evoked Potentials - drug effects; Feedback, Psychological - drug effects; Humans; Information processing; Medical sciences; Neuropsychological Tests; Neurosciences; Original Investigation; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Risk; Risk-Taking; Young Adult; Netherlands; Decision-making; Balloon analogue risk task; P300; Alcohol; Event-related potentials; Feedback-related negativity; Risk taking; Evaluation; Prognosis; Decision making; Acute; Electrophysiology; Feedback regulation; P300 potential; Alcoholic beverage; Evoked potential; Risk factor; Event evoked potential

Rationale Although risky decision-making is one of the hallmarks of alcohol use disorders, relatively little is known about the acute psychopharmacological effects of alcohol on decision-making processes. Objective The present study investigated the acute effects of alcohol on neural mechanisms unde...