Damaris Rohsenow, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies and Professor (Research) of Community Health, received considerable international and national media attention for a study on hangover she conducted in collaboration with Prof. Jonathan Howland of Boston University. The research studied the residual effects of alcohol on subjective states and performance 9 ½ to 11 hours after drinking, and found that it affected safety-sensitive performance without participants being aware of their impairment and regardless of whether participants felt hangover symptoms.
Details: Media attention was received from CNN (TV and Web), Fox News, MSNBC, two Health and Human Services HealthBeat radio spots, interviews on Australian and Canadian radio stations, Nature magazine, MedPageToday (including an audio interview), interviews for Norwegian and Netherlands science web sites, ScienceNews.com, front page of the Providence Journal, and other media interviews. Some of these can be seen at http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/18/booze.hangovers.congener/index.html, http://www.projo.com/health/content/ALCOHOL_HANGOVER_STUDY_12-24-09_KQGSR31_v66.26a2368.html, or http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Addictions/17656 (for a more technical discussion).