Rationale Alcohol effects on social cognition have been studied by measuring facial emotion
recognition, empathy, Theory of Mind (ToM) and other forms of information processing …

The negative consequences of chronic alcohol abuse are well known, but heavy episodic
consumption (“binge drinking”) is also associated with significant personal and societal …

Rationale Social cognition influences social interactions. Alcohol reportedly facilitates social
interactions. However, the acute effects of alcohol on social cognition are relatively poorly …

Objective: We evaluated the effect of short-term and long-term heroin abstinence on brain
responses to heroin-related cues using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

Aim To synthesize the results of alcohol toxicology reports for homicide victims and examine
variations in these results across person and setting characteristics. Methods We meta …

Alcohol has been linked to both positive (eg, sociability) and negative (eg, aggression)
social outcomes, and researchers have proposed that alcohol‐induced changes in emotion …

There is growing evidence that drugs of abuse alter processing of emotional information in
ways that could be attractive to users. Our recent report that Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) …

Many psychoactive drugs increase social behavior and enhance social interactions, which
may, in turn, increase their attractiveness to users. Although the psychological mechanisms …

Alcohol is one of the most consumed psychoactive substances in the world, and the
negative impact related to alcohol use has become a worldwide public health issue. Alcohol …

Rationale Acute 'priming'doses of alcohol reliably increase alcohol-seeking behaviour in
social drinkers. However, the effects of the anticipated (rather than pharmacological) effects …