Negative attentional bias for positive recovery-related words as a predictor of treatment success among individuals with an alcohol use disorder

Rettie, Hannah; Hogan, Lee

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.03.034

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“…Of note, we did observe associations among measures of CUD severity, stress, and antisaccade performance, suggesting there may be utility in this type of approach applied within the context of medications screening or intervention studies (Rettie et al, 2018;Sinha et al, 2011). Because this was a hypothesis-generating aim, future clinical trials might consider eye-tracking stimulus reactivity as a marker of target engagement in treatments that purportedly modulate the stress response (Sinha, 2001(Sinha, , 2009.…”

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“…In other laboratory paradigms, individualized scripts, unique to each patient, have been effectively used to model stress, drug craving, and relapse risk (Rajita Sinha, 2013). Attentional bias to individualized words with personal relevance was predictive of treatment outcome in alcohol use disorder patients (Rettie, Hogan, & Cox, 2018), and facilitated attentional bias outcomes in cocaine dependence (Kennedy, Gross, Ely, Drexler, & Kilts, 2014). Studies in other domains indicate that use of individualized stimuli may enhance measurement sensitivity or effect sizes in anxiety disorders (Pergamin-Hight, Naim, Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, & Bar-Haim, 2015) and PTSD (Wingenfeld et al, 2009).…”

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Assessing attentional bias and inhibitory control in cannabis use disorder using an eye-tracking paradigm with personalized stimuli.

Yoon¹,

Miguel²,

Vincent³

et al. 2019

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Individuals with cannabis use disorders (CUD) show inhibitory control deficits and differential attention toward marijuana (MJ) stimuli. The robustness and utility of these measures in the CUD literature are somewhat equivocal. The present study was designed to increase measurement sensitivity by capitalizing on (a) individually calibrated stimulus selection based on cue reactivity patterns and (2) eye-tracking based measurement. CUD (n = 42) and non-CUD controls (n = 11) served as subjects. Subjects were first exposed to MJ and neutral pictures while measuring physiological and subjective responses on a trial by trial basis. A single reactivity index was created for each stimulus (L2 vector norm). Subject-unique high-reactivity MJ and low-reactivity neutral stimuli were then used in an eye-tracking task (pro-/antisaccade). The stimulus calibration procedure produced large reactivity differences between high/MJ and low/neutral stimuli (p < .001, effect size >7). CUD subjects made more overall antisaccade errors than controls (inhibitory control, p < .02, effect size >1), and CUD subjects (but not controls) made more errors on MJ trials versus neutral trials (attentional bias, p < .002, effect size >1). Within CUD subjects, L2 vector norm scores were associated with antisaccade errors (p < .04), and antisaccade errors were correlated with the Perceived Stress Scale (p < .03) and marginally with CUD severity (p < .07). Because of precise understanding of the neural circuitry governing antisaccades (a marker in several neuro/psychiatric disorders), eye movement–based measures combined with individually determined stimuli may provide an efficient and robust marker in CUD research.

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Assessing attentional bias and inhibitory control in cannabis use disorder using an eye-tracking paradigm with personalized stimuli.

Yoon¹,

Miguel²,

Vincent³

et al. 2019

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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“…VODKA) and non-appetitive words (e.g. CHAIR [36][37][38]). One study even reports that they employed office stationery purposefully 'so that participants would not be distracted by the control category stimuli in any way' ( [39], p. 2).…”

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Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research

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Background and Aims A range of experimental paradigms claim to measure the cognitive processes underpinning alcohol use, suggesting that heightened attentional bias, greater approach tendencies and reduced cue‐specific inhibitory control are important drivers of consumption. This paper identifies methodological shortcomings within this broad domain of research and exemplifies them in studies focused specifically on alcohol‐related attentional bias. Argument and analysis We highlight five main methodological issues: (i) the use of inappropriately matched control stimuli; (ii) opacity of stimulus selection and validation procedures; (iii) a credence in noisy measures; (iv) a reliance on unreliable tasks; and (v) variability in design and analysis. This is evidenced through a review of alcohol‐related attentional bias (64 empirical articles, 68 tasks), which reveals the following: only 53% of tasks use appropriately matched control stimuli; as few as 38% report their stimulus selection and 19% their validation procedures; less than 28% used indices capable of disambiguating attentional processes; 22% assess reliability; and under 2% of studies were pre‐registered. Conclusions Well‐matched and validated experimental stimuli, the development of reliable cognitive tasks and explicit assessment of their psychometric properties, and careful consideration of behavioural indices and their analysis will improve the methodological rigour of cognitive alcohol research. Open science principles can facilitate replication and reproducibility in alcohol research.

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“…Current research is aimed at systematically examining the role of attention bias in addiction and, especially, its predictive capacity of treatment outcomes (maintenance of abstinence). The role of attention bias for positive or negative words related to change has recently been analyzed, but the results require replication with greater depth of analysis, especially with respect to gender [11].…”

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We Need to Delay the Age of Onset of Alcohol Consumption

Moure-Rodríguez

Caamaño-Isorna

2020

IJERPH

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In recent years, new consumption patterns, such as binge drinking, have increased among young people and have not always been recognized as problematic either by health personnel or by society in general, as they are intensive episodes, interspersed with no consumption periods. Although the prevalence of alcohol use disorders in the adult population continues to be higher in men than in women, these gender differences in relation to alcohol consumption are barely observed in adolescents between 14 and 18. Therefore, we are witnessing a change in the pattern of consumption, from regular to episodic, and an attenuation of gender differences. New patterns of alcohol consumption have not only been associated with an increased risk of alcohol use disorders in adult life, but also with neurocognitive involvement in youth. Understanding the risk and resilience factors of alcoholism or problematic drinking patterns will not only allow us to identify the most vulnerable group, but also to guide prevention programs towards protective factors; the skills that contribute to the natural abandonment of the pattern. Knowing the variables involved in the trajectories of abandonment and dependency would contribute to personalizing the interventions and increasing their efficacy and success—a lower relapse rate—, reducing the economic and socio-sanitary costs associated with alcohol dependency, as well as improving the health and well-being, family relations, work and social status of alcohol-dependent people.

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Negative attentional bias for positive recovery-related words as a predictor of treatment success among individuals with an alcohol use disorder

Abstract: The results suggest that positive change-related words are a better predictor of treatment outcome than are either alcohol-related words or negative change-related words.

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Assessing attentional bias and inhibitory control in cannabis use disorder using an eye-tracking paradigm with personalized stimuli.

Assessing attentional bias and inhibitory control in cannabis use disorder using an eye-tracking paradigm with personalized stimuli.

Raising the bar: improving methodological rigour in cognitive alcohol research

We Need to Delay the Age of Onset of Alcohol Consumption

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