Dietary Tryptophan Reverses Alcohol‐induced Impairment of Facial Recognition But Not Verbal Recall
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 12 (4) , 531-533
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1988.tb00237.x
Abstract
The present study demonstrates that alcohol-induced memory impairment can be attenuated by pretreatment with an oral tryptophan supplementation. These results provide support for the role of a brain serotonin deficit in this impairment and highlight the impact a dietary manipulation can have on a complex behavioral process.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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