Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming
RATIONALE: Hazardous drinking has been associated with risk taking and alcohol priming effects. However, the potential relationship between risk taking and priming has not been investigated. The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) is a behavioural measure of risk taking which appears to be associated...
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author | Rose, Abigail K. Jones, Andrew Clarke, Natasha Christiansen, Paul |
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description | RATIONALE: Hazardous drinking has been associated with risk taking and alcohol priming effects. However, the potential relationship between risk taking and priming has not been investigated. The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) is a behavioural measure of risk taking which appears to be associated with drinking behaviour. However, alcohol's acute effects on BART performance are not clear, and the potentially mediating effect of alcohol-induced risk taking on priming has not been tested. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of a priming dose of alcohol on BART performance; to determine the predictive utility of the BART on drinking habits; and to identify whether alcohol-induced risk taking mediates alcohol priming (urge to drink). METHODS: A total of 142 participants provided data on drinking habits and trait-like impulsivity and sensation seeking. The BART was then completed after consuming alcohol (0.6 g/kg) or placebo (between-subjects design). Baseline and post-drink measures of alcohol urge were also taken. RESULTS: Alcohol consumption increased urge to drink (priming) and risk taking on the BART. In the alcohol group only, risk taking on the BART predicted unique variance in weekly alcohol consumption and bingeing. Mediation analysis showed that risk taking following alcohol consumption mediated alcohol priming. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to show that alcohol acutely increases risk taking on the BART. Results suggest that social drinkers susceptible to alcohol-induced risk taking may be more likely to drink excessively, perhaps due to increased urge to drink (priming). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00213-013-3377-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-40185112014-05-13 Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming Rose, Abigail K. Jones, Andrew Clarke, Natasha Christiansen, Paul Psychopharmacology (Berl) Original Investigation RATIONALE: Hazardous drinking has been associated with risk taking and alcohol priming effects. However, the potential relationship between risk taking and priming has not been investigated. The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) is a behavioural measure of risk taking which appears to be associated with drinking behaviour. However, alcohol's acute effects on BART performance are not clear, and the potentially mediating effect of alcohol-induced risk taking on priming has not been tested. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of a priming dose of alcohol on BART performance; to determine the predictive utility of the BART on drinking habits; and to identify whether alcohol-induced risk taking mediates alcohol priming (urge to drink). METHODS: A total of 142 participants provided data on drinking habits and trait-like impulsivity and sensation seeking. The BART was then completed after consuming alcohol (0.6 g/kg) or placebo (between-subjects design). Baseline and post-drink measures of alcohol urge were also taken. RESULTS: Alcohol consumption increased urge to drink (priming) and risk taking on the BART. In the alcohol group only, risk taking on the BART predicted unique variance in weekly alcohol consumption and bingeing. Mediation analysis showed that risk taking following alcohol consumption mediated alcohol priming. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to show that alcohol acutely increases risk taking on the BART. Results suggest that social drinkers susceptible to alcohol-induced risk taking may be more likely to drink excessively, perhaps due to increased urge to drink (priming). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00213-013-3377-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013-12-13 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4018511/ /pubmed/24337024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-013-3377-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2013 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Investigation Rose, Abigail K. Jones, Andrew Clarke, Natasha Christiansen, Paul Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming |
title | Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming |
title_full | Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming |
title_fullStr | Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming |
title_full_unstemmed | Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming |
title_short | Alcohol-induced risk taking on the BART mediates alcohol priming |
title_sort | alcohol-induced risk taking on the bart mediates alcohol priming |
topic | Original Investigation |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018511/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24337024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-013-3377-1 |
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