Beyond Inhibition: A Dual-Process Perspective to Renew the Exploration of Binge Drinking.
(2014) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience — Vol. 8, p. 405 (2014)
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- Binge drinking is a widespread alcohol-consumption pattern in youth and is linked to cognitive consequences, mostly for executive functions. However, other crucial factors remain less explored in binge drinking and notably the emotional-automatic processes. Dual-process model postulates that addictive disorders are not only due to impaired reflective system (involved in deliberate behaviors), but rather to an imbalance between under-activated reflective system and over-activated affective-automatic one (involved in impulsive behaviors). This proposal has been confirmed in alcohol-dependence, but has not been tested in binge drinking. The observation of comparable impairments in binge drinking and alcohol-dependence led to the "continuum hypothesis," suggesting similar deficits across different alcohol-related disorders. In this perspective, applying the dual-process model to binge drinking might renew the understanding of this continuum hypothesis. A three-axes research agenda will be proposed, exploring: (1) the affective-automatic system in binge drinking; (2) the systems' interactions and imbalance in binge drinking; (3) the evolution of this imbalance in the transition between binge drinking and alcohol-dependence.
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Lannoy, S., Billieux, J., & Maurage, P. (2014). Beyond Inhibition: A Dual-Process Perspective to Renew the Exploration of Binge Drinking. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 405. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00405 (Original work published 2014)