Acute alcohol intoxication reduces communication between two areas of the brain that are responsible for perceiving social cues, a new study has claimed. K. Luan Phan from University of Illinois at Chicago professor of psychiatry and colleagues examined alcohol's effects on connectivity between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex during the processing of emotional stimuli - photographs of happy, fearful and angry faces - using functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...Sunday, 1 September 2013
Brain Connections Responsible for Perceiving Social Cues Severed by Alcohol
Acute alcohol intoxication reduces communication between two areas of the brain that are responsible for perceiving social cues, a new study has claimed. K. Luan Phan from University of Illinois at Chicago professor of psychiatry and colleagues examined alcohol's effects on connectivity between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex during the processing of emotional stimuli - photographs of happy, fearful and angry faces - using functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...
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