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Article: Alcohol-induced impairment of behavioral control: effects on the alteration and suppression of prepotent responses *.
- Article from:
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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THE ASSOCIATION of alcohol use with aggression and other socially inappropriate behaviors has led to considerable research interest in the possibility that alcohol selectively impairs the ability to inhibit behavioral actions (e.g., Lyvers, 2000). A number of theories postulate that behavioral control is governed by two fundamental and distinct systems: one that activates behavior, and one that inhibits behavior (Fowles, 1987; Gray, 1976, 1977; Logan and Cowan, 1984; Patterson and Newman, 1993; Quay, 1997). Neuroanatomical research shows that frontal and prefrontal brain regions exert inhibitory influences over behavioral control. Damage to these regions produces a wide ...