Cognitive performance and mood after a normal night of drinking: A naturalistic alcohol hangover study in a non-student sample

Devenney, Lydia E; Coyle, Kieran; Verster, Joris C.

doi:10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100197

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“…Alcohol hangover is an unpleasant state that is reached after an episode of heavy drinking and starts once breath and blood alcohol levels have returned to zero [1]. Aside from symptoms like headaches and gastrointestinal problems [1], a wide range of mild cognitive impairments have been reported, including attention, memory, task-switching, and psychomotor performance deficits [2,3,4,5,7,67,68]. Importantly, these domains are also known to be impaired during acute alcohol intoxication [11,17,38,69,70].…”

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“…Against this background, cognitive functions that are impaired by acute intoxication might also be impaired during alcohol hangover. Yet, the reports on this are still somewhat inconsistent, with some studies finding comparable effects, while others fail to do so [6,11,20,38,67,71,72]. Given that alcohol has repeatedly been reported to impair controlled behaviour to a larger degree than automatic behaviour [21], we decided to focus on how alcohol hangover impairs controlled versus automatic response selection processes.…”

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Alcohol Hangover Slightly Impairs Response Selection but not Response Inhibition

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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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Alcohol Hangover Slightly Impairs Response Selection but not Response Inhibition

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“…Previous studies have utilised tasks of interference control—another form of inhibition [ 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 ]—and one recent study investigated the effects of hangover on response inhibition [ 37 ]. Three naturalistic studies asked participants to complete the Eriksen Flanker and Stroop tasks, measuring different aspects of interference control, in two conditions: the morning after a night of naturalistic drinking (hangover), and again after no alcohol consumption (no-hangover) [ 33 , 34 ]. In one study, student participants who were experiencing a hangover exhibited greater impairments in interference control on both tasks compared to the no-hangover condition [ 33 ], whilst another found impairments on the Stroop task only [ 32 ].…”

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“…In one study, student participants who were experiencing a hangover exhibited greater impairments in interference control on both tasks compared to the no-hangover condition [ 33 ], whilst another found impairments on the Stroop task only [ 32 ]. In contrast, a naturalistic study that recruited participants from the general population showed no hangover effects on interference control on either task [ 34 ]. One study that experimentally induced hangover also found no evidence of hangover-related effects on interference control using the Eriksen Flanker task [ 35 ].…”

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The Effects of Alcohol Hangover on Response Inhibition and Attentional Bias towards Alcohol-Related Stimuli

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Alcohol hangover is associated with the development of alcohol use disorders, yet few studies have examined the influence of hangover on cognitive processes that may contribute towards future alcohol consumption such as response inhibition and attentional bias towards alcohol-related stimuli. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the effects of hangover on these processes. In total, 37 adult drinkers who reported regularly engaging in heavy episodic drinking and experiencing a hangover at least once in the previous month took part in this within-subjects, “naturalistic” crossover study. Participants completed Go/No-Go (assessing response inhibition) and Visual Dot Probe (attentional bias) tasks in a hangover condition (morning following alcohol consumption) and a no-hangover condition (no alcohol consumption for at least 24 h). Participants also completed measures of hangover severity, mood, and perceived mental effort. Results indicated impaired response inhibition during hangover compared to the no-hangover condition (p < 0.001, d = 0.89), but no difference in attentional bias scores between conditions. Participants reported expending greater mental effort to complete tasks (p < 0.001, d = 1.65), decreased alertness (p < 0.001, d = 3.19), and reduced feelings of tranquillity (p < 0.001, d = 1.49) in the hangover versus no-hangover condition. Together, these findings suggest that alcohol hangover is associated with impaired response inhibition and lower mood. However, problems with recording eye-tracking data on the Visual Dot Probe task used in the present study may limit the reliability of our attentional bias findings.

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“…Likewise, hungover participants did not seem to alter their application of goal-directed and/or habitual learning strategies 28 . Yet still, alcohol hangover has been shown to impair cognitive control functions 29 – 33 , which could promote a relative advantage of response automatization as well as poor behavioral choices beyond acute intoxication, like the habitual continuation of drinking.…”

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Alcohol intoxication, but not hangover, differentially impairs learning and automatization of complex motor response sequences

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Hubert

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Behavioral automatization usually makes us more efficient and less error-prone, but may also foster dysfunctional behavior like alcohol abuse. Yet, it has remained unclear whether alcohol itself causes the shift from controlled to habitual behavior commonly observed in alcohol use disorder (AUD). We thus investigated how the acute and post-acute effects of binge drinking affect the automatization of motor response sequences and the execution of automated vs. controlled motor response sequences. N = 70 healthy young men performed a newly developed automatization paradigm once sober and once after binge drinking (half of them intoxicated and half of them hungover). While we found no significant effects of alcohol hangover, acute intoxication (~ 1.2 ‰) had two dissociable effects: Firstly, it impaired the automatization of complex motor response sequence execution. Secondly, it eliminated learning effects in response selection and pre-motor planning processes. The results suggest that alcohol hangover did not affect controlled or automated processes, and disprove the assumption that alcohol intoxication generally spares or facilitates motor response sequence automatization. As these effects could be specific to the investigated explicit learning context, acute intoxication might potentially still improve the execution of pre-existing automatisms and/or the implicit acquisition of motor response sequence automatisms.

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Cognitive performance and mood after a normal night of drinking: A naturalistic alcohol hangover study in a non-student sample

Cited by 11 publications

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Alcohol Hangover Slightly Impairs Response Selection but not Response Inhibition

Alcohol Hangover Slightly Impairs Response Selection but not Response Inhibition

The Effects of Alcohol Hangover on Response Inhibition and Attentional Bias towards Alcohol-Related Stimuli

Alcohol intoxication, but not hangover, differentially impairs learning and automatization of complex motor response sequences

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