Impaired Decision-Making and Skin Conductance Responses Are Associated with Reward and Punishment Sensitivity in Individuals with Severe Alcohol Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) have difficulties regulating alcohol consumption, despite adverse drinking-related consequences. This may be due to incapacity incorporating previous negative feedback from drinking, resulting in impaired decision-making.

Methods

We assessed whether decision-making is impaired in participants with AUD related to severity of AUD, indexed by severe negative drinking consequences using the Drinkers Inventory of Consequences (DrInC) and reward and punishment sensitivity with the Behavioural Inhibition System Behavioural Activation System (BIS BAS) scales. 36 treatment-seeking alcohol-dependent participants completed the Iowa gambling task (IGT) with skin conductance responses (SCRs) measured continuously as an index of som

SUBMITTER: Logge WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10233679 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature