Social cognition in alcohol use disorder: a meta-analysis

Bora, Emre; Zorlu, Nabi

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“…In the current approach, combining analyses at group and individual levels, results indeed indicate that BD have specific difficulties for the recognition of fear and sadness facial expressions but also that BD do not present impairments for some emotional categories (i.e., anger and disgust). This is important as anger‐processing deficits were identified as a central feature in SAUDs (see Bora and Zorlu, ; for a meta‐analysis) and as this proposal had obtained preliminary empirical support in binge drinking through identification tasks (i.e., requiring the ability to identify, as quickly as possible, the emotional content presented among 2 categories; Lannoy et al., ; Maurage et al., ). The current results thus reinforce the need to largely open this research field in binge drinking, but also call for direct comparisons between BD and SAUDs patients (i.e., to identify the differences and similarities in these 2 consumption patterns) and longitudinal data (e.g., to explore whether the duration or changes in alcohol consumption may be related to differences in the ability to recognize emotions).…”

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Disrupted Fear and Sadness Recognition in Binge Drinking: A Combined Group and Individual Analysis

Lannoy

Benzerouk

Maurage

et al. 2019

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background: Binge drinking is a harmful pattern of alcohol consumption, associated with cognitive and cerebral impairments. Indeed, various cognitive processes have been identified as disrupted in binge drinking, ranging from perceptive to executive functions, but emotional processes have conversely been little investigated. Particularly, it is unclear to what extent binge drinkers (BD) present difficulties to recognize and categorize the emotions expressed by other individuals. Such an exploration would, however, offer a more comprehensive view of the deficits associated with alcohol-related disorders and potentially involved in the maintenance of this harmful habit.Methods: Fifty-two BD and 42 control participants performed an emotional task assessing the ability to recognize 6 basic emotions (i.e., anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness). Accuracy score and detection threshold were collected for each emotion. To explore the extent of emotion recognition difficulties, 2 analyses were conducted: (i) classical repeated measures analyses of variance, to compare groups' performance, and (ii) multiple single-case analyses (i.e., Crawford's t-tests), to determine the percentage of BD presenting genuine emotion recognition deficits. Correlations were also performed between alcohol consumption characteristics and emotional recognition scores.Results: BD presented reduced performance for the recognition of fear and sadness. Multiple single cases highlighted that these deficits respectively concerned 21.15 and 15.38% of the binge drinking sample, and the relation between binge drinking and reduced sadness detection was supported by correlational analyses.Conclusions: These findings show that binge drinking is associated with a disrupted processing of emotional stimuli. By identifying heterogeneity in the impairments presented by BD, the present results also underline the usefulness of a combined group and individual analysis.

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Disrupted Fear and Sadness Recognition in Binge Drinking: A Combined Group and Individual Analysis

Lannoy

Benzerouk

Maurage

et al. 2019

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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“…While recent meta-analyses highlight deficits in social cognition in individuals with AUD (Onuoha et al, 2016; Bora and Zorlu, 2017), there are a lack of fMRI studies in this area within young BD/HD. In one study, young adult BD categorizing vocal affective stimuli had less activity in STG, but more activity in MFG compared with their peers (Maurage et al, 2013).…”

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The Burden of Binge and Heavy Drinking on the Brain: Effects on Adolescent and Young Adult Neural Structure and Function

2017

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Introduction: Adolescence and young adulthood are periods of continued biological and psychosocial maturation. Thus, there may be deleterious effects of consuming large quantities of alcohol on neural development and associated cognition during this time. The purpose of this mini review is to highlight neuroimaging research that has specifically examined the effects of binge and heavy drinking on adolescent and young adult brain structure and function.Methods: We review cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of young binge and heavy drinkers that have examined brain structure (e.g., gray and white matter volume, cortical thickness, white matter microstructure) and investigated brain response using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).Results: Binge and heavy-drinking adolescents and young adults have systematically thinner and lower volume in prefrontal cortex and cerebellar regions, and attenuated white matter development. They also show elevated brain activity in fronto-parietal regions during working memory, verbal learning, and inhibitory control tasks. In response to alcohol cues, relative to controls or light-drinking individuals, binge and heavy drinkers show increased neural response mainly in mesocorticolimbic regions, including the striatum, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), hippocampus, and amygdala. Mixed findings are present in risky decision-making tasks, which could be due to large variation in task design and analysis.Conclusions: These findings suggest altered neural structure and activity in binge and heavy-drinking youth may be related to the neurotoxic effects of consuming alcohol in large quantities during a highly plastic neurodevelopmental period, which could result in neural reorganization, and increased risk for developing an alcohol use disorder (AUD).

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“…Persistent AUD a Age at study entry, mean (SD) 33 from other studies in population-based [11,13], high-risk and clinical samples [12,14,51,52] using a variety of definitions of remission. The current analyses used an explicit abstinent and non-abstinent remission phenotype, distinct from AUDs and consistent with the idea that the distribution of risks for development of, and for remission from, AUDs may not lie on the same continuum [15].…”

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“…Traits that might enhance these connections, like social cognition (31–33), might also be associated with the ability to remit. Heritable characteristics that are related to social cognition, such as prosocial behavior and social responsiveness (34, 35), may represent a dimension that underlies remission in the same way that an externalizing dimension underlies AUDs, but that diverges from the externalizing domain.…”

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“…In contrast, some of the most consistent correlates of both abstinent and non-abstinent remission are social connections such as marriage, friendship and religious or self-help group attendance [27][28][29][30]. Traits that might enhance these connections, such as social cognition [31][32][33], might also be associated with the ability to remit. Heritable characteristics that are related to social cognition, such as prosocial behavior and social responsiveness [34,35], may represent a dimension that underlies remission in the same way that an externalizing dimension underlies AUDs, but that diverges from the externalizing domain.…”

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Familial association of abstinent remission from alcohol use disorder in first‐degree relatives of alcohol‐dependent treatment‐seeking probands

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Studies that have included family history of alcohol use disorder (AUD) as a predictor of remission from AUD have yielded few significant results. The goals of this study were to estimate the association of persistent AUD, non-abstinent remission and abstinent remission (“AUD/remission status”) in a proband with AUD/remission status in a relative and to test whether this association differed in related and unrelated proband-relative pairs. DESIGN High-risk family study of alcohol dependence. Probands were recruited from treatment settings and relatives were invited to participate. Baseline assessments occurred between 1991–1998 with follow-up between 1996–2005. Half of probands were matched with a biological 1st-degree relative with lifetime AUD (related group) and half of probands were paired with an unrelated individual with lifetime AUD (unrelated group). SETTING Brooklyn, New York; Indianapolis, Indiana; Iowa City, Iowa; San Diego, California; Farmington, Connecticut; and St. Louis, Missouri, USA. PARTICIPANTS 606 probands (25.7% female, mean age 37.7) with baseline and follow-up data and 606 of their 1st degree relatives who had lifetime AUDs (45.8% female, mean age 36.2). MEASUREMENTS Persistent AUD, non-abstinent remission, and abstinent remission were based on self-report interview data on most recent AUD symptoms and alcohol consumption. Dependent variable was relatives’ AUD/remission status. Independent variable was probands’ AUD/remission status. FINDINGS 34.6% of probands and 20.6% of relatives were abstinent and 11.1% of probands and 22.8% of relatives were in non-abstinent remission. AUD/remission status was significantly correlated in related (r=.23, p=.0037) but not in unrelated pairs. A significant interaction of probands’ abstinent remission with a variable representing related (versus unrelated, p=.003) pairs suggested a familial association for abstinent remission. In related pairs, individuals with an abstinent proband were more likely to be abstinent themselves than were individuals whose proband had persistent AUD (relative risk ratio=3.27, 95% CI=1.56–6.85, p=.002); this association was not significant in unrelated pairs. CONCLUSIONS The likelihood of abstinent remission among people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) appears to be more than 3 times greater for individuals who are related to an abstinent proband versus those related to a proband with persistent AUD.

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Social cognition in alcohol use disorder: a meta-analysis

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Disrupted Fear and Sadness Recognition in Binge Drinking: A Combined Group and Individual Analysis

Disrupted Fear and Sadness Recognition in Binge Drinking: A Combined Group and Individual Analysis

The Burden of Binge and Heavy Drinking on the Brain: Effects on Adolescent and Young Adult Neural Structure and Function

Familial association of abstinent remission from alcohol use disorder in first‐degree relatives of alcohol‐dependent treatment‐seeking probands

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