Response to "Is there room for attentional impairments in binge drinking? A commentary on Carbia et al. (2018)."

Abstract

[Excerpt] We would like to thank Lannoy et al. (2019) for their interest in expanding and discussing some points of our systematic review of neuropsychological studies in binge drinkers (BDs) (Carbia et al., 2018b). While we appreciate the commentators’ interest in our work, it raises issues that warrant clarification. First, the authors argue that our conclusion regarding the apparent absence of attentional impairments in BDs is premature. This argument is based principally on the statement that our review failed to identify neuropsychological studies that reflected attentional difficulties, in particular Lannoy et al. (2017) (published after the completion of our literature search), Sánchez-Roige et al. (2014) and Scaife and Duka (2009). However, these last two articles were indeed included and extensively discussed in our manuscript.