Cognitive training in recently-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder improves emotional stroop performance: Evidence from a randomized pilot trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cognitive training interventions appear capable of improving alcohol-associated neurobehavioral deficits in recently detoxified individuals. However, efficacy remains incompletely characterized in alcohol use disorder (AUD) and available data address only non-affective cognitive outcomes; enhancement of social cognition remains uninvestigated. We utilized a training paradigm in which successfully ignoring emotionally-valent stimuli benefitted task performance. We hypothesized trained individuals would display improvements in an affective inhibitory control task, and that individuals trained with high valence (relative to neutral) stimuli would evince greater improvement.

Methods

42 recently detoxified inpatients with AUD were assigned to one of three groups (Emoti

SUBMITTER: Lewis B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311324 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature