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