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This overview explains misattribution of memory, also known as a source-monitoring error, as assigning a recollection to the wrong origin. It describes cryptomnesia, false memories, and source confusion, and summarizes how incomplete encoding and judgment processes can contribute to these errors.
This American Prosecutors Research Institute primer explains alcohol toxicology concepts used in impaired-driving cases, including absorption, distribution, elimination, alcohol concentration estimates, and retrograde extrapolation. It also discusses limits of estimates, post-incident drinking, multiple test results, and common defenses for legal professionals interpreting toxicology evidence.
This collection examines research on alcohol and marijuana used together, including whether their combined effects relate to blackouts and other harms. The studies summarized consider college and young-adult populations, patterns of simultaneous or concurrent use, and factors such as gender, motives, and amount consumed when examining reported consequences.
This National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism brochure explains that alcohol can change how medicines work and that medicines can alter alcohol’s effects. It gives examples of prescription and over-the-counter drug interactions, describes possible effects such as drowsiness and impaired coordination, and includes guidance on reading medication labels and finding further information.
The article examines why drinkers may underestimate how much alcohol they have consumed or how intoxicated they are. Its cited studies report estimation errors associated with heavier drinking and, among bar patrons already above the legal driving threshold, frequent underestimation of breath alcohol concentration, especially among women and people under 21.
The article reviews evidence that alcohol changes the timing and structure of sleep in healthy people. It describes faster sleep onset and more deep sleep early in the night, followed by greater disruption later, and summarizes research linking intoxication with reduced REM sleep and poorer reported sleep quality.
This clinical overview describes alcohol-related psychosis, which may arise during or soon after heavy drinking or during withdrawal and can involve hallucinations, paranoia, or fear. It reviews diagnostic considerations, possible causes, evaluation, and management, and emphasizes distinguishing alcohol-induced symptoms from schizophrenia, delirium, and other medical causes.
This article reviews how alcohol may affect memory formation and reconstruction for criminal events, including attention, episodic memory, and the encoding of new information. It also collects research on alcohol and eyewitness or suspect reporting, describing findings that vary across studies and memory tasks rather than treating intoxication as having one uniform effect.
This declaration addresses how MDMA, commonly called ecstasy or Molly, may affect memory in a military court-martial case. The psychologist describes expertise in drug effects on event encoding and retrieval and presents research material concerning intoxication, memory formation, and later recall.
This article gathers material on how stress and emotion may affect memory formation and recall, including research related to anger. It summarizes studies linking stress hormones with impaired retrieval under some conditions and reviews work proposing that emotions such as anger can shape which details are encoded or remembered.
