Next day effects of naturalistic alcohol consumption on tasks of attention

McKinney, Adele; Coyle, Kieran; Penning, Renske; Verster, Joris C.

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“…The literature search identified 19 studies that could be included in the systematic review , and 11 with sufficient data to be included in the meta‐analysis . Of the 20 articles excluded during full text screening, 12 studies failed to measure hangover at testing, two of which were reported in the same article .…”

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“…The 11 laboratory studies typically administered lower doses of alcohol than were consumed during the eight naturalistic drinking studies . Ten studies explored multiple aspects of cognition . Risk of bias was assessed using RevMan (; see Fig.…”

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“…Research examining the cognitive effects of alcohol hangover have produced conflicting findings. While several studies report impairment in spatial and visual abilities , attention , memory , information processing speed , reaction times and intellectual processes , others reveal no clear evidence that hangover affects cognition . Tasks reflecting work‐place performance have also produced mixed results, with impairments in driving , flying and surgical performance , but not managerial decisions or problem‐solving in a ship engine .…”

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A systematic review of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognitive performance

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Background and aimsStudies examining the next‐day cognitive effects of heavy alcohol consumption have produced mixed findings, which may reflect inconsistencies in definitions of ‘hangover’. Recent consensus has defined hangover as ‘mental and physical symptoms, experienced the day after a single episode of heavy drinking, starting when blood alcohol concentration (BAC) approaches zero’. In light of this, we aimed to review the literature systematically to evaluate and estimate mean effect sizes of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognition.MethodsEmbase, PubMed and PsycNET databases were searched between December 2016 and May 2018 using terms based on ‘alcohol’ and ‘hangover’. Studies of experimental designs which reported the next‐day cognitive effects of heavy alcohol consumption in a ‘hangover’ group with BAC < 0.02% were reviewed. A total of 805 articles were identified. Thirty‐nine full‐text articles were screened by two independent reviewers and 19 included in the systematic review; 11 articles provided sufficient data to be included in the meta‐analysis; 1163 participants across 19 studies conducted since 1970 were included in the analysis. Data for study design, hangover severity, BAC at testing and cognitive performance were extracted and effect estimates calculated.ResultsThe systematic review suggested that sustained attention and driving abilities were impaired during hangover. Mixed results were observed for: psychomotor skills, short‐ (STM) and long‐term memory (LTM) and divided attention. The meta‐analysis revealed evidence of impairments in STM [g = 0.64, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.15–1.13], LTM (Hedges’ g = 0.59, 95% CI = 0.01–1.17) sustained attention (g = 0.47, 95% CI = 0.07–0.87) and psychomotor speed (Hedges’ g = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.31–1.00) during alcohol hangover.ConclusionThe research literature suggests that alcohol hangovers may involve impaired cognitive functions and performance of everyday tasks such as driving.

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“…They reviewed the growing evidence base that shows hangover negatively affects core cognitive functions such as divided attention (e.g., Roehrs et al, 1991), sustained attention (e.g., Anderson & Dawson, 1999;McKinney et al, 2012;Rohsenow et al, 2010), attentional selection (e.g., McKinney et al, 2012), and some executive functions (e.g., Streufert et al, 1995).…”

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“…For the choice-RT task, there was no main effect of hangover on initial-movement time (the time taken to move the stylus to the target area), but participants who experienced the experiment in the order hangover-no-hangover showed slower RTs in their hangover state. McKinney et al (2012) also utilised a naturalistic study where 48 participants came to the lab the day after they had been drinking and performed a series of cognitive tasks; performance in this hangover condition was compared to the same participants' performance Hangover & Response Time 6 on a day after they had not been drinking. (There was also an acute alcohol condition.)…”

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The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time

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The effect of alcohol hangover on cognitive processing has received little attention.We explored the effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (RT), a dominant dependent variable in cognitive research. Prior research of the effect of hangover on RT has produced mixed findings; all studies reviewed relied exclusively on estimates of central tendency (e.g., mean RT), which has limited information value. Here we present novel analytical methods by going beyond mean RT analysis. Specifically, we examined performance in hangover conditions (N = 31) across the whole RT distribution by fitting exGaussian models to participant data, providing a formal description of the RT distribution.This analysis showed detriments to performance under hangover conditions at the slower end of the RT distribution and increased RT variance under hangover conditions. We also fitted an explicit mathematical process model of choice RT-the diffusion model-which estimates parameters reflecting psychologically-meaningful processes underlying choice RT. This analysis showed that hangover reduced information processing efficiency during response selection, and increased response caution; changes in these parameters reflect hangover affecting core decisional-components of RT performance. The implications of the data as well as the methods used for hangover research are discussed. The Effect of Alcohol Hangover on Choice Response TimeAlcohol hangover refers to the set of adverse symptoms experienced following alcohol consumption once alcohol has been eliminated from the blood (Verster et al., 2010).A number of biological mechanisms underlying hangover have been put forward such as the metabolism of congeners (alcohols in drinks other than ethanol) such as methanol, imbalance in the immune system and reduced blood glucose concentration (Penning et al., 2010), as well as acetaldehyde level increase, dehydration, sleep deprivation and insufficient eating (Verster et al., 2003). Although researchers have some understanding of the physiological effects of hangover, much less is known about the cognitive effects of hangover (Prat, Adan, Pérez-Pàmies & Sànchez-Turet, 2008;Prat, Adan & Sánchez-Turet, 2009).Stephens, Grange, Jones, and Owen (2014) provided a review of studies which have investigated the effects of alcohol hangover on general cognition. They reviewed the growing evidence base that shows hangover negatively affects core cognitive functions such as divided attention (e.g., Roehrs et al., 1991), sustained attention (e.g., Anderson & Dawson, 1999;McKinney et al., 2012; Rohsenow et al., 2010), attentional selection (e.g., McKinney et al., 2012), and some executive functions (e.g., Streufert et al., 1995).The focus of the present study was on the effect of alcohol hangover on response time (RT). Simple RT requires no choice between response alternatives, and is merely a reaction to an external stimulus (e.g., "Press the space bar as soon as you see a flash on the screen").Choice RT, in contrast, requires participants to make a ...

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A critical analysis of alcohol hangover research methodology for surveys or studies of effects on cognition

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Next day effects of naturalistic alcohol consumption on tasks of attention

Abstract: Alcohol consumption has a negative impact on some but not all facets of attentional processing the morning after a normal nights drinking.

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A systematic review of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognitive performance

A systematic review of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognitive performance

The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time

A critical analysis of alcohol hangover research methodology for surveys or studies of effects on cognition

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