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Fillmore MT, Van Dyke N. DUI offenders display reduced perception of intoxication and heightened impulsive choice in response to alcohol. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 2020; 28:337-347. [PMID: 31282704 PMCID: PMC6946908 DOI: 10.1037/pha0000311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol continues to be a major contributor in traffic fatalities. There is growing evidence for heightened trait impulsivity in DUI offenders, but little is known about how impulsivity could interact with alcohol intoxication in a manner that would increase the likelihood of driving while intoxicated. This placebo-controlled study examined the acute effects of 0.65g/kg alcohol on 2 facets of impulsivity (impulsive choice and response inhibition), simulated risky driving behavior, and subjective intoxication in a group of 20 DUI offenders and 20 control drivers with no history of DUI. It was predicted that compared with controls, DUI offenders would self-report greater impulsivity, and display greater impulsive choice and driver risk taking, particularly in response to alcohol. Results showed that alcohol impaired drivers' inhibitory control and increased their impulsive choice behavior and risky driving behavior. Alcohol selectively increased impulsive choice of DUI offenders, as control drivers showed no alcohol-induced increase in their impulsive choices. Results also showed that, compared with controls, offenders reported feeling less intoxicated and were more willing to drive after drinking. Laboratory studies are beginning to show that DUI offenders differ from nonoffenders in their acute responses to alcohol. This study identified two alcohol response characteristics of DUI offenders that indicate their lack of risk awareness during intoxication: heightened impulsivity and reduced subjective intoxication. Strategies and treatments to alter these response characteristics in DUI offenders could enhance their risk awareness during the intoxicated state and possibly reduce risk of DUI recidivism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Mark T. Fillmore
- Correspondence concerning this article
should be addressed to: Mark T. Fillmore, Department of Psychology, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, Phone: (859) 257-4728,
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CONTEXT Severity of alcohol dependence is related to the high-risk behavior of alcohol dependents. AIM To assess the high-risk behavior in patients with alcohol dependence and study the association between them. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This is a descriptive study of high-risk behavior in patients with alcohol dependence, conducted over a period of 15-month duration that is from January 2011 to April 2012 on 200 alcohol-dependent patients (178 men and 22 women) in the Department of Psychiatry, Mamata Medical College and General Hospital, Khammam (TS), India. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients and their caregivers fulfilling the selection criteria were included in the study, and informed consent was obtained. Interview was carried out after 2 weeks to rule out the possibility of the presence of withdrawal symptoms in alcohol-dependent patients. Tools used for data collection include Sociodemographic and Clinical Profile Schedule, Clinical Institute of Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, Mini-Mental Status Examination, Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire, and High Risk Behavior Questionnaire. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and logistic regression test were used. RESULTS The occurrence of high-risk behavior was substantial among patients with alcohol dependence syndrome. Event analysis method indicated that road traffic accidents associated with prior heavy drinking was the most frequently observed high-risk behavior. CONCLUSIONS The study reiterates the relationship between alcohol and sexual behavior and also highlights that individuals dependent on alcohol are a specifically vulnerable group.
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- Anupama Korlakunta
- Department of Psychiatry, Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Shadan Medical College, Hyderabad, India
- Department of Psychiatry, Mamata Medical College and Hospital, Khammam, Telengana, India
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Van Dyke NA, Fillmore MT. Laboratory analysis of risky driving at 0.05% and 0.08% blood alcohol concentration. Drug Alcohol Depend 2017; 175:127-132. [PMID: 28412303 PMCID: PMC5467693 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 01/08/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND The public health costs associated with alcohol-related traffic crashes are a continuing problem for society. One harm reduction strategy has been to employ per se limits for blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at which drivers can legally operate motor vehicles. This limit is currently 0.08% in all 50 US states. Recently, the National Transportation Safety Board proposed lowering the legal limit to 0.05% (NTSB, 2013). While research has well-validated the ability of alcohol to impair driving performance and heighten crash-risk at these BACs, relatively little is known about the degree to which alcohol might increase drivers' risk-taking. METHODS Risk-taking was examined in 20 healthy adults who were each tested in a driving simulator following placebo and two doses of alcohol calculated to yield peak BACs of 0.08% and 0.05%, the respective current and proposed BAC limits. The drive test emphasized risk-taking by placing participants in a multiple-lane, high-traffic environment. The primary measure was how close drivers maneuvered relative to other vehicles on the road (i.e., time-to-collision, TTC). RESULTS Alcohol increased risk-taking by decreasing drivers' TTC at the 0.08% target BAC relative to placebo. Moreover, risk-taking at the 0.05% target was less than risk-taking at 0.08% target BAC. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide evidence that reducing the legal BAC limit in the USA to 0.05% would decrease risk-taking among drivers. A clearer understanding of the dose-response relationship between various aspects of driving behaviors, such as drivers' accepted level of risk while driving, is an important step to improving traffic safety.
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- Nicholas A Van Dyke
- University of Kentucky, Department of Psychology, 171 Funkhouser Dr., Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Department of Psychology, 171 Funkhouser Dr., Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA.
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Laude JR, Fillmore MT. Drivers who self-estimate lower blood alcohol concentrations are riskier drivers after drinking. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2016; 233:1387-94. [PMID: 26861796 PMCID: PMC4814299 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-016-4233-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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RATIONALE Alcohol increases the tendency for risky driving in some individuals but not others. Little is known about the factors underlying this individual difference. Studies find that those who underestimate their blood alcohol concentration (BAC) following a dose of alcohol tend to be more impulsive and report greater willingness to drive after drinking than those who estimate their BACs to be greater than their actual BAC. BAC underestimation could contribute to risky driving behavior following alcohol as such drivers might perceive little impairment in their driving ability and thus no need for caution. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to test the relationship between drivers' BAC estimations following a dose of alcohol or a placebo and the degree of risky driving they displayed during a simulated driving test. METHODS Forty adult drivers performed a simulated driving test and estimated their blood alcohol concentration after receiving a dose of alcohol (0.65 g/kg for men and 0.56 g/kg for women) or a placebo. RESULTS Alcohol increased risk-taking and impaired driving skill. Those who estimated their BAC to be lower were the riskiest drivers following both alcohol and placebo. CONCLUSIONS The tendency to estimate lower BACs could support a series of high-risk decisions, regardless of one's actual BAC. This could include the decision to drive after drinking.
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- Jennifer R Laude
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0044, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0044, USA.
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Bisby JA, King JA, Sulpizio V, Degeilh F, Valerie Curran H, Burgess N. Extinction learning is slower, weaker and less context specific after alcohol. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2015; 125:55-62. [PMID: 26234587 PMCID: PMC4655873 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 07/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Alcohol is frequently involved in psychological trauma and often used by individuals to reduce fear and anxiety. We examined the effects of alcohol on fear acquisition and extinction within a virtual environment. Healthy volunteers were administered alcohol (0.4 g/kg) or placebo and underwent acquisition and extinction from different viewpoints of a virtual courtyard, in which the conditioned stimulus, paired with a mild electric shock, was centrally located. Participants returned the following day to test fear recall from both viewpoints of the courtyard. Skin conductance responses were recorded as an index of conditioned fear. Successful fear acquisition under alcohol contrasted with impaired extinction learning evidenced by persistent conditioned responses (Experiment 1). Participants’ impairments in extinction under alcohol correlated with impairments in remembering object-locations in the courtyard seen from one viewpoint when tested from the other viewpoint. Alcohol-induced extinction impairments were overcome by increasing the number of extinction trials (Experiment 2). However, a test of fear recall the next day showed persistent fear in the alcohol group across both viewpoints. Thus, alcohol impaired extinction rather than acquisition of fear, suggesting that extinction is more dependent than acquisition on alcohol-sensitive representations of spatial context. Overall, extinction learning under alcohol was slower, weaker and less context-specific, resulting in persistent fear at test that generalized to the extinction viewpoint. The selective effect on extinction suggests an effect of alcohol on prefrontal involvement, while the reduced context-specificity implicates the hippocampus. These findings have important implications for the use of alcohol by individuals with clinical anxiety disorders.
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- James A Bisby
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK; Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1 3BG, UK.
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK; Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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- Inserm-EPHE-UCBN, Unité U1077, Boulevard Becquerel, 14000 Caen, France
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- Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London, London, UK; Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK; Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1 3BG, UK.
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Tremblay M, Gallant F, Lavallière M, Chiasson M, Silvey D, Behm D, Albert WJ, Johnson MJ. Driving performance on the descending limb of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in undergraduate students: a pilot study. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0118348. [PMID: 25723618 PMCID: PMC4344323 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Young drivers are overrepresented in collisions resulting in fatalities. It is not uncommon for young drivers to socially binge drink and decide to drive a vehicle a few hours after consumption. To better understand the risks that may be associated with this behaviour, the present study has examined the effects of a social drinking bout followed by a simulated drive in undergraduate students on the descending limb of their BAC (blood alcohol concentration) curve. Two groups of eight undergraduate students (n = 16) took part in this study. Participants in the alcohol group were assessed before drinking, then at moderate and low BAC as well as 24 hours post-acute consumption. This group consumed an average of 5.3 ± 1.4 (mean ± SD) drinks in an hour in a social context and were then submitted to a driving and a predicted crash risk assessment. The control group was assessed at the same time points without alcohol intake or social context.; at 8 a.m., noon, 3 p.m. and 8 a.m. the next morning. These multiple time points were used to measure any potential learning effects from the assessment tools (i.e. driving simulator and useful field of view test (UFOV)). Diminished driving performance at moderate BAC was observed with no increases in predicted crash risk. Moderate correlations between driving variables were observed. No association exists between driving variables and UFOV variables. The control group improved measures of selective attention after the third asessement. No learning effect was observed from multiple sessions with the driving simulator. Our results show that a moderate BAC, although legal, increases the risky behaviour. Effects of alcohol expectancy could have been displayed by the experimental group. UFOV measures and predicted crash risk categories were not sentitive enough to predict crash risk for young drivers, even when intoxicated.
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- Mathieu Tremblay
- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
- Healthy Driver Research Group, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
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- École de kinésiologie et de loisir, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
- Healthy Driver Research Group, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
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- MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) AgeLab & New England University Transportation Center, Cambridge, United States of America
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
- Healthy Driver Research Group, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
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- École de kinésiologie et de loisir, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
- Healthy Driver Research Group, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada
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Aston ER, Shannon EE, Liguori A. Anxiety, sedation, and simulated driving in binge drinkers. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS 2014; 28:359-66. [PMID: 24955664 PMCID: PMC4170799 DOI: 10.1037/a0036511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The current study evaluated the relationships among trait anxiety, subjective response to alcohol, and simulated driving following a simulated alcohol binge. Sixty drinkers with a binge history completed the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Alcohol Use Questionnaire, and subsequently completed a driving simulation. Participants were then administered 0.2 g/kg ethanol at 30-min intervals (cumulative dose 0.8 g/kg). Following alcohol consumption, the Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale (BAES) and visual analog scales of subjective impairment and driving confidence were administered, after which simulated driving was reassessed. Due to the emphasis on simulated driving after drinking in the current study, subjective response to alcohol (i.e., self-reported sedation, stimulation, impairment, and confidence in driving ability) was assessed once following alcohol consumption, as this is the time when drinkers tend to make decisions regarding legal driving ability. Alcohol increased driving speed, speeding tickets, and collisions. Sedation following alcohol predicted increased subjective impairment and decreased driving confidence. Subjective impairment was not predicted by sensitivity to stimulation or trait anxiety. High trait anxiety predicted low driving confidence after drinking and this relationship was mediated by sedation. Increased speed after alcohol was predicted by sedation, but not by trait anxiety or stimulation. Anxiety, combined with the sedating effects of alcohol, may indicate when consumption should cease. However, once driving is initiated, sensitivity to sedation following alcohol consumption is positively related to simulated driving speed.
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- Elizabeth R. Aston
- Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health Providence, RI 02903, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, United States
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Aston ER, Neiberg RH, Liguori A. Breath alcohol estimation training: behavioral effects and predictors of success. Alcohol Alcohol 2013; 48:396-401. [PMID: 23695976 DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agt047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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AIMS Breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) estimation training has been effective in increasing estimation accuracy in social drinkers. Predictors of estimation accuracy may identify populations to target for training, yet potential predictors typically are not evaluated. In addition, the therapeutic efficacy of estimation training as a preventive strategy for problematic drinking is unknown. METHODS Forty-six social drinkers with a recent binge history were randomly assigned to an intervention or control group (n = 23 per group). In each of three sessions (pretraining, training, testing), participants consumed alcohol (0.32, 0.24, 0.16 and 0.08 g/kg, in random order) every 30 min (total dose: 0.8 g/kg). Participants provided five BrAC estimates within 3 h of alcohol administration. The intervention group, but not control group, received internal and external training. During testing, participants provided BrAC estimates, but received no feedback. Participants returned for two follow-up visits to complete self-report measures. RESULTS BrAC estimation training improved intervention group estimation accuracy within the laboratory. Together, training, low trait anxiety and low risk expectancy predicted high testing accuracy. There were no significant group differences in subsequent alcohol consumption, behavior under the influence or risk expectancy regarding potentially hazardous behaviors. CONCLUSION BrAC estimation training is effective in the laboratory but may not translate into naturalistic settings.
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- Elizabeth R Aston
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Conrad M, McNamara P, King A. Alternative substance paradigm: effectiveness of beverage blinding and effects on acute alcohol responses. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 2012; 20:382-9. [PMID: 22867037 PMCID: PMC4048031 DOI: 10.1037/a0029261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A fundamental goal of double-blind alcohol challenge studies is to reduce alcohol expectancies, though there is little research on the effectiveness of blinding procedures and their relationship to acute alcohol responses. This study examined social drinkers' perception of beverage content and related alcohol response during 3 separate double-blind experimental sessions with placebo, low-dose alcohol (0.4 g/kg), and high-dose alcohol (0.8 g/kg). Using the alternative substance paradigm, participants (N = 182) were informed that the beverage they consumed might contain alcohol, a stimulant, a sedative, or a placebo. At several time points, subjective and objective measures were obtained, and participants were asked to identify which substance they received. During both placebo and low-dose alcohol sessions, 33% and 50% of participants, respectively, did not correctly identify the beverage content; during the high-dose alcohol session, 20% did not correctly identify the beverage. Although correct and incorrect identifiers at any dose level did not differ on major background variables, drinking characteristics, or psychomotor performance during these sessions, they did differ on self-reported subjective responses, with greater sedation reported by incorrect identifiers in the placebo and high-dose conditions. In summary, results suggest that the alternative substance paradigm may be a viable option for alcohol laboratory studies, particularly for repeated sessions in within-subject designs and in cases in which the experimenter wants to reduce expectancy by not revealing a priori that alcohol is being administered.
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- Megan Conrad
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison Street, MC 285, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Niveles de alcohol en sangre y somnolencia en conductores estudiados en simuladores: un metaanálisis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/s0034-7450(14)60120-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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