An oculomotor test to measure alcohol impairment.
Drunk driving continues to be one of the nation's most serious safety problems. On the premise that oculomotor control provides a quantitative measure that is very sensitive to alcohol impairment, an oculomotor test previously developed as a portable hand-held Viewmaster viewer with specially designed grating patterns as images was used to stress the oculomotor system. Test scores decreased with increased alcohol impairment along with a large dependence on individual lateral phoria scores. Unfortunately, there was a large amount of interindividual variability, which may limit use of the test for the population at large unless other individual characteristics are included.
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802-1401.
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D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000187:drug effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000187:drug effects*; D012016:Reference Values
D000431:Ethanol