Mind reading abilities in opiate-dependent patients: An exploratory study

Gandolphe, Marie-Charlotte; Lecluyse, Bérénice; Triquet, Claire; Brunelle, Emmanuel; Duparcq, Jean-Paul; Nandrino, Jean‐Louis

doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.03.001

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“…Given that both groups performed at the same level when asked to infer the age or gender of the stimuli, these data indicate that opiate users have a specific impairment using eye-gaze information to understand the emotions of others, as opposed to a generalised deficit in face perception. This finding is consistent with both previous studies that have assessed ToM function in long-term opiate users using different methodological approaches (Gandolphe et al, 2018; McDonald et al, 2013). The current study consequently adds to converging evidence that the cognitive aspect of empathy is impaired in long-term opiate users, and that this effect generalises across different task types.…”

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“…In the first, McDonald et al (2013) found that when asked to infer the mental states of the actors in social vignettes, participants enrolled in opioid maintenance programmes tended to perform worse than healthy controls, particularly when the social exchanges were sarcastic rather than sincere. Similarly, Gandolphe et al (2018) found that when asked to infer the intentions of characters in a movie, opiate users tended to show poorer performance than healthy controls, particularly when taking the perspective of the characters, or inferring their mental states. Thus, although only limited to two studies, there is at least preliminary evidence that ToM might be impaired in this group.…”

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“…In terms of ToM, only two previous studies have investigated this ability in long-term opiate users (Gandolphe et al, 2018; McDonald et al, 2013). In the first, McDonald et al (2013) found that when asked to infer the mental states of the actors in social vignettes, participants enrolled in opioid maintenance programmes tended to perform worse than healthy controls, particularly when the social exchanges were sarcastic rather than sincere.…”

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Social cognition impairments in long-term opiate users in treatment

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Background: Long-term opiate users experience pervasive social difficulties, but there has been surprisingly limited research focused on social-cognitive functioning in this population. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate whether three important aspects of social cognition (facial emotion recognition, theory of mind (ToM) and rapid facial mimicry) differ between long-term opiate users and healthy controls. Methods: The participants were 25 long-term opiate users who were enrolled in opiate substitution programmes, and 25 healthy controls. Facial emotion recognition accuracy was indexed by responses to 60 photographs of faces depicting the six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust). ToM was assessed using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task, which requires participants to infer mental states of others from partial facial cues. Rapid facial mimicry was assessed by recording activity in the zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii muscle regions while participants passively viewed images of happy and angry facial expressions. Results: Relative to the control group, the opiate user group exhibited deficits in both facial emotion recognition and ToM. Moreover, only control participants exhibited typical rapid facial mimicry responses to happy facial expressions. Conclusions: These data indicate that long-term opiate users exhibit abnormalities in three distinct areas of social-cognitive processing, pointing to the need for additional work to establish how social-cognitive functioning relates to functional outcomes in this group. Such work may ultimately inform the development of interventions aimed at improving treatment outcomes for long-term opiate users.

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“…The Th.o.m.a.s. has proven to be a useful clinical tool in the assessment of mindreading ability of several populations of adolescent participants , individuals with alcohol use disorder (Bosco et al, 2013), patients with congenital heart disease (Chiavarino et al, 2015), sex offenders (Castellino et al, 2011), nonsuicidal self-injury adolescents (Laghi et al, 2016), adolescents with bulimia (Laghi et al, 2014) and opiate-dependent patients (Gandolphe et al, 2018).…”

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Mindreading abilities and borderline personality disorder: A comprehensive assessment using the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale

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This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Highlights  Mindreading impairment in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD)  Th.o.m.a.s. interview allowed to assess different aspects of real-life mindreading  BPD performed worse than controls on allocentric perspective-taking  Mindreading functions as assessed by Th.o.m.a.s. correlates with depressive symptoms

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“…ToM deficits have also been documented in different SUDs and have been linked to impaired functional outcomes (18). For example, using paradigms that involve ratings of audiovisual vignettes, impaired ability to accurately perceive the mental states or perspectives of others (affective ToM) has been found in heavy users or abusers of alcohol (19), cocaine (20), cannabis (21), opiates (22,23), and poly-substances (24). During SUD recovery, impaired interpretation of emotion would potentially limit the capacity of social reinforcement (either positive or negative) to discourage substance abuse.…”

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Social Information Processing in Substance Use Disorders: Insights From an Emotional Go-Nogo Task

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Positive social connections are crucial for recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Of interest is understanding potential social information processing (SIP) mediators of this effect. To explore whether persons with different SUD show idiosyncratic biases toward social signals, we administered an emotional go-nogo task (EGNG) to 31 individuals with Cocaine Use Disorder (CoUD), 31 with Cannabis Use Disorder (CaUD), 79 with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), and 58 controls. Participants were instructed to respond to emotional faces (Fear/Happy) but withhold responses to expressionless faces in two task blocks, with the reverse instruction in the other two blocks. Emotional faces as non-targets elicited more “false alarm” (FA) commission errors as a main effect. Groups did not differ in overall rates of hits (correct responses to target faces), but participants with CaUD and CoUD showed reduced rates of hits (relative to controls) when expressionless faces were targets. OUD participants had worse hit rates [and slower reaction times (RT)] when fearful faces (but not happy faces) were targets. CaUD participants were most affected by instruction effects (respond/“go” vs withhold response/“no-go” to emotional face) on discriminability statistic A. Participants were faster to respond to happy face targets than to expressionless faces. However, this pattern was reversed in fearful face blocks in OUD and CoUD participants. This experiment replicated previous findings of the greater salience of expressive face images, and extends this finding to SUD, where persons with CaUD may show even greater bias toward emotional faces. Conversely, OUD participants showed idiosyncratic behavior in response to fearful faces suggestive of increased attentional disruption by fear. These data suggest a mechanism by which positive social signals may contribute to recovery.

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Mind reading abilities in opiate-dependent patients: An exploratory study

Cited by 11 publications

References 46 publications

Social cognition impairments in long-term opiate users in treatment

Social cognition impairments in long-term opiate users in treatment

Mindreading abilities and borderline personality disorder: A comprehensive assessment using the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale

Social Information Processing in Substance Use Disorders: Insights From an Emotional Go-Nogo Task

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