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.
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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