Corrigendum to: Alcohol Hangover Across the Lifespan: Impact Of Sex and Age

The present proceedings offer a summary of the 11th meeting of the Alcohol Hangover Research Group held in April 2019 in Nadi, Fiji. The aim of the meeting was to gather the world’s leading experts in the field of alcohol hangover and share advances and ideas to help better understand the underlying pathology, consequences, and potential therapeutics. Several aspects of alcohol hangover research were discussed, including hangover-associated impairments of cognitive performance and health, novel and best research practice, the validation and use of wearable technology and online tools for off-site data collection, effects of hangover on physical strength performance, new evidence on sex differences in the occurrence and severity of alcohol hangover, and exciting future projects and directions.

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Alcohol Hangover Slightly Impairs Response Selection but not Response Inhibition

Journal of Clinical Medicine ◽

10.3390/jcm8091317 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 1317 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Antje Opitz ◽

Jan Hubert ◽

Christian Beste ◽

Ann-Kathrin Stock

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Control ◽

Response Inhibition ◽

Response Selection ◽

Current Knowledge ◽

Alcohol Intoxication ◽

Heavy Drinking ◽

High Dose ◽

Automatic Response ◽

Alcoholic Drinks ◽

Alcohol Hangover

Alcohol hangover commonly occurs after an episode of heavy drinking. It has previously been demonstrated that acute high-dose alcohol intoxication reduces cognitive control, while automatic processes remain comparatively unaffected. However, it has remained unclear whether alcohol hangover, as a consequence of binge drinking, modulates the interplay between cognitive control and automaticity in a comparable way. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of alcohol hangover on controlled versus automatic response selection and inhibition. N = 34 healthy young men completed a Simon Nogo task, once sober and once hungover. Hangover symptoms were experimentally induced by a standardized administration of alcoholic drinks (with high congener content) on the night before the hangover appointment. We found no significant hangover effects, which suggests that alcohol hangover did not produce the same functional deficits as an acute high-dose intoxication. Yet still, add-on Bayesian analyses revealed that hangover slightly impaired response selection, but not response inhibition. This pattern of effects cannot be explained with the current knowledge on how ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde may modulate response selection and inhibition via the dopaminergic or GABAergic system.

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