| Binge drinking, typically associated with college | | | | between activities. |
| students, may lead to poor decision making. | | | | Researchers are already aware that alcoholics have |
| The results of a new study published in the June issue | | | | poorer neurocognitive functioning, including decision |
| of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research | | | | making, than do non-alcoholics. However, there are |
| suggest that among college students, those who binge | | | | few studies about how heavy drinking by those who |
| drink often exhibit poor decision making . Jenny Larkins, | | | | are not actually addicted to alchohol (binge drinkers) |
| a graduate student in clinical psychology at the | | | | affects decision making. Researchers examined 200 |
| University of Missouri, claims that alcoholics make poor | | | | students in four subgroups based on different |
| decisions such as those involving short-term rewards | | | | binge-drinking lifestyles from pre-college to the |
| coupled with long-term losses. The problems were | | | | sophomore year. These included low-binge drinkers, |
| associated with mental skills such planning for the | | | | stable moderate-binge drinkers, increasing binge |
| future, abstract reasoning, inhibiting or delaying | | | | drinkers, and stable high-binge drinkers. |
| responses, doing two things at once and shifting | | | | |