The influence of alcohol on basic motoric and cognitive disinhibition

An experiment was performed to test whether alcohol intoxication leads to cognitive disinhibition as measured by the Color Word Test. In psychoanalytic terms, it was hypothesized that alcohol would decrease secondary process functioning leading to disinhibition and so make it easier to perform a primary process function. 24 men and 24 women participated and were randomly assigned to an Alcohol group, a Placebo group or a Control group. The alcohol dose was 1.0 ml of 100% alcohol/kg body weight. No statistically significant differences were found on any of the three dependent measures, number of errors, number of hesitations and total time needed, except that men in the Alcohol group needed significantly longer time to complete the test. These results indicate that cognitive disinhibition is not valid as an explanation for alcohol-related changes in cognitive functioning.

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A neural network of obsessive– compulsive disorder: modelling cognitive disinhibition and neurotransmitter dysfunction

Medical Hypotheses ◽

10.1054/mehy.1999.1028 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 168-176 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

D.J. Stein ◽

J. Ludik

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Cognitive Disinhibition

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A New Test to Measure Attentional Bias and Cognitive Disinhibition in Drinkers, Based on the Hayling Task

Alcohol and Alcoholism ◽

10.1093/alcalc/agq062 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 45 (6) ◽

pp. 501-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. K. Rose ◽

M. Mason-Li ◽

D. Nicholas ◽

M. Hobbs

Keyword(s):

Attentional Bias ◽

Cognitive Disinhibition

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Chaos Rainbows

10.1093/oso/9780197611098.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 56-79

Author(s):

William Todd Schultz

Keyword(s):

Raw Materials ◽

Jack Kerouac ◽

States Of Mind ◽

Art Making ◽

Hard Time ◽

Step Model ◽

Steve Jobs ◽

The Common ◽

Cognitive Disinhibition ◽

Joni Mitchell

Chapter 4 provides an examination of the common states of mind arising out of openness, including schizotypy, reduced latent inhibition, and cognitive disinhibition. The chapter reconstructs a frame of mind artists themselves have a hard time describing. From there, questions center on the shaping, the organizing, and the ordering involved in art-making. Most of the chapter is dedicated to chaos and its roots in personality. But chaos alone isn’t enough. Creativity is making something. Chaos is a means to that end, the making. How the artist uses chaos is just as important as finding ways to stay open to it. Numerous artists are used as illustrations, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Jobs, and Joni Mitchell. A four-step model for how raw materials get shaped into art is also presented.

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Cognitive disinhibition and socioemotional functioning in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ◽

10.1017/s1355617707071184 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 1060-1064 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

SCOTT NASH ◽

JULIE D. HENRY ◽

SKYE MCDONALD ◽

INGERITH MARTIN ◽

HENRY BRODATY ◽

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Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Cognitive Empathy ◽

Cognitive Status ◽

Sentence Completion ◽

Behavioral Measure ◽

Control Group ◽

Socioemotional Functioning ◽

Cognitive Disinhibition

Individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) experience difficulties with socioemotional functioning, and it has been proposed that cognitive disinhibition may be one potential mechanism that contributes to difficulties in this area. To test this possibility, twenty individuals with AD and 20 demographically matched controls were administered self-report measures of depression, emotion regulation and empathy, in addition to a behavioral measure that has proven to be very sensitive to inhibitory failures (the Hayling Sentence Completion Test). Relative to controls AD participants exhibited increased inhibitory failures on the Hayling, and self-reported significantly reduced cognitive empathy, but did not differ with respect to affective empathy, depression or perceived capacity for emotion regulation. Controlling for general cognitive status, in the AD (but not the control) group, reduced cognitive inhibition was associated with lower levels of depression. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. (JINS, 2007, 13, 1060–1064.)

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