Psychophysiological Correlates of Emotional- and Alcohol-Related Cues Processing in Offspring of Alcohol-Dependent Patients

Domínguez-Centeno, Isabel; Jurado‐Barba, Rosa; Sión, Ana; Martínez-Maldonado, Andrés; Castillo-Parra, Gabriela; López-Muñoz, Francisco; Rubio, Gabriel; Martínez-Gras, Isabel

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“…Although core domains of emotional competence, such as emotion regulation processes, were repeatedly reported to be linked to centroparietal regions ( Morawetz et al. 2016 , Dominguez-Centeno et al. 2020 , Hua et al.…”

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Brain regulation training improves emotional competences in patients with alcohol use disorder

Hack,

Aigner,

Musalek

et al. 2024

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined as the impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite adverse social, occupational or health consequences and still represents one of the biggest challenges for society regarding health conditions, social consequences, and financial costs, including the high relapse rates after traditional alcohol rehabilitation treatment. Especially the deficient emotional competence in AUD is said to play a key role in the development of AUD and hinders to interrupt the substance compulsion, often leading in a viscous circle of relapse. Although the empirical evidence of a neurophysiological basis of alcohol use disorder is solid and increases even further, clinical interventions based on neurophysiology are still rare for individuals with AUD. This randomized, controlled trial investigates changes in emotional competences and alcohol-related cognitions and drinking behavior before and after an established alcohol rehabilitation treatment (control group, nCG = 29) compared to before and after an optimized, add-on neurofeedback training (experimental group: nEG = 27). Improvements on the clinical-psychological level, i.e., increases in emotional competences as well as life satisfaction were found after the experimental EEG-neurofeedback training. Neurophysiological measurements via resting state EEG indicate decreases in low beta frequency band, while alpha and theta band remained unaffected.

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confidence: 99%

Brain regulation training improves emotional competences in patients with alcohol use disorder

Hack,

Aigner,

Musalek

et al. 2024

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Building an Ecologically Valid Facial Expression Database – Behind the Scenes

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Ulrich

Dozio

et al. 2021

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design Methods and User Experience

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Emotional Processing and Maltreatment During Childhood as Factors of Vulnerability to Alcohol Abuse in Young Adults

Rubio

Gasparyan

Duque

et al. 2023

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Different studies suggest a strong association between childhood abuse and alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The modulation of the startle response has been used to assess emotional processing in AUDs. The main objective of the study was to investigate the startle reflex responses to different stimuli in young adults with varying types of childhood abuse in comparison with a control group according to their current alcohol consumption and the presence of a parent with alcohol dependence or not. A clinical sample of 606 adolescents, divided into five groups: no abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse, were assessed on their pattern of alcohol consumption and their family history of alcoholism. The proportion of participants with at least one alcohol-dependent parent was higher in all types of abuse. The proportion of heavy drinkers and alcohol-dependent participants was higher in the groups with physical neglect and sexual abuse. Heavy drinkers and alcohol dependents showed a lower startle reflex response to emotional pictures, especially alcohol-related ones. Adolescents exposed to physical and sexual abuse during childhood showed a mitigated startle response to appetitive and alcohol-related pictures. The results of this exploratory study reveal that childhood maltreatment modulates emotional processing to alcohol-related stimuli during adolescence. The evaluation of these patients’ startle response could be considered a prognostic biomarker for establishing personalized preventive strategies during the adolescent stage to avoid, to a large extent, future problems derived from alcohol consumption.

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Psychophysiological Correlates of Emotional- and Alcohol-Related Cues Processing in Offspring of Alcohol-Dependent Patients

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Brain regulation training improves emotional competences in patients with alcohol use disorder

Brain regulation training improves emotional competences in patients with alcohol use disorder

Building an Ecologically Valid Facial Expression Database – Behind the Scenes

Emotional Processing and Maltreatment During Childhood as Factors of Vulnerability to Alcohol Abuse in Young Adults

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