No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers

Tackling addictive behaviors through memory suppression: A scoping review and perspective

“…Specifically, studies reported altered retrieval suppression capacity in PTSD (Catarino et al, 2015;Mary et al, 2020;Steward et al, 2020;Sullivan et al, 2019;Waldhauser et al, 2018) or individuals exposed to trauma (Leone et al, 2022), ADHD (Depue et al, 2010), depression or depression-related symptoms (Fawcett et al, 2015;Hertel et al, 2018;Hertel & Gerstle, 2003;Joormann et al, 2009;Nair et al, 2020;Nishiyama & Saito, 2022;Noreen et al, 2020;Noreen & Ridout, 2016a, 2016bYang et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2016Zhang et al, , 2020, anxiety or anxiety traits (Dieler et al, 2014;Diwadkar et al, 2017;Kim et al, 2007;Marzi et al, 2014;Nishiyama & Saito, 2022;Waldhauser et al, 2011), alcohol-misuse (Almeida-Antunes et al, 2024;Nemeth et al, 2014;Simeonov et al, 2022), bipolar disorder (Sala et al, 2009), restrained eaters (Bian et al, 2021), and during acute stress conditions (Ashton et al, 2020;Quaedflieg et al, 2020Quaedflieg et al, , 2022. The neural alterations were mainly manifested as altered-either reduced or augmented-brain activity in control regions (e.g., DLPFC and VLPFC) and areas responsible for memory retrieval (e.g., hippocampus and parahippocampus).…”

“…There were only three studies exploring this ability in populations with alcohol abuse (Almeida-Antunes et al, 2024;Nemeth et al, 2014;Simeonov et al, 2022), and all three pointed to impairments in suppressing unwanted memories, including memories related to alcohol (Almeida-Antunes et al, 2024;Simeonov et al, 2022).…”

“…Most of these studies (n = 20/35; 57.1%) revealed impaired MS ability in the experimental group when compared to control individuals. Specifically, studies observed retrieval suppression difficulties in subjects exposed to trauma and with PTSD(Catarino et al, 2015;Sullivan et al, 2019;Waldhauser et al, 2018), individuals with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD;Depue et al, 2010), dysphoric participants(Noreen et al, 2020;Noreen & Ridout, 2016a, 2016b, bipolar disorder patients(Sala et al, 2009), high trait anxious individuals(Kim et al, 2007;Marzi et al, 2014), subjects with major depressive disorder(Joormann et al, 2009), depressive tendency(Yang et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2016), ruminators(Hertel et al, 2018), individuals with alcohol dependence(Nemeth et al, 2014), binge alcohol consumption(Almeida-Antunes et al, 2024), heavy drinking(Simeonov et al, 2022),…”