Depicting People in Visual Cues Affects Alcohol Cue Reactivity in Male Alcohol-Dependent Patients.

ABSTRACT: Cue reactivity is often used to study alcohol cues brain responses. Standardized image sets are used, but the effect of viewing people interacting with the alcohol drink remains unclear, which is associated with the factors of alcohol cues that influence the degree of response to alcohol stimuli. The present study used fMRI to investigate the reactivity of alcohol dependence (AD) inpatients to alcohol cues with or without human drinking behavior. Cues with a human interacting with a drink were hypothesized to increase sensorimotor activation. In total, 30 AD inpatients were asked to view pictures with a factorial design of beverage types (alcoholic vs. non-alcoholic beverages) and cue types (with or without drink action). Whole-brain analyses were performed. A correlation analysis was cond

SUBMITTER: Alarefi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8946691 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature