Tackling heterogeneity: Individual variability of emotion decoding deficits in severe alcohol use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe alcohol use disorder (SAUD) is associated with social cognition deficits. Patients with SAUD are impaired for the recognition of emotional facial expressions, particularly at early stages of abstinence. These deficits damage interpersonal relations and increase relapse risk. However, uncertainties still abound on their variation across emotions and on the heterogeneity of emotional impairments across patients. We addressed these questions by exploring how the deficit varies according to emotions' type/intensity and patients' heterogeneity.

Methods

Sixty-five recently detoxified patients with SAUD and 65 matched healthy controls performed the Facial Emotion Recognition Test, assessing the ability to identify six emotions (anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happ

SUBMITTER: Maurage P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7738413 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature