Acute Alcoholic Intoxication

Human perception of alcoholic intoxication in speech

In this paper we describe a perception experiment on intoxicated and sober speech of 161 speakers recorded in the German Alcohol Language Corpus. 72 listeners achieved an average discrimination rate of 63.1% when asked to choose from pairs of stimuli which one sounded intoxicated. Perception results were not gender-dependent and no hidden effects were found in a control group test. Since earlie...

Perception of Alcoholic Intoxication in Speech

The ALC sub-challenge of the Interspeech Speaker State Challenge (ISSC) aims at the automatic classification of speech signals into intoxicated and sober speech. In this context we conducted a perception experiment on data derived from the same corpus to analyze the human performance on the same task. The results show that human still outperform comparable baseline results of ISSC. Female and m...

Quantitative Electroencephalographic Studies of Anoxia in Humans; Comparison with Acute Alcoholic Intoxication and Hypoglycemia.

Acute bromadiolone intoxication.

A 55-year-old man came to the hospital with a bleeding wound on his tongue. The coating of his tongue was green, and his sputum was red. Because an increased international normalized ratio-value was measured, a blood sample was sent to our laboratory with the suspicion of coumarin intoxication. Liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) analysis confirmed the po...

Acute alcohol intoxication.

Acute alcohol intoxication is a clinically harmful condition that usually follows the ingestion of a large amount of alcohol. Clinical manifestations are heterogeneous and involve different organs and apparatuses, with behavioral, cardiac, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, neurological, and metabolic effects. The management of an intoxicated patient occurs mainly in the emergency department and is a...