While severe alcohol use disorder (SAUD) is classically characterized as a compulsion to seek and consume alcohol and a reduced ability to control these behaviors, a growing number of studies shows social cognition difficulties among recently detoxified patients. The present chapter proposes an ...
In new research, people with severe alcohol use disorder tended to have greater difficulty forming new social memories. And, while they had better immediate recall of positive than negative social cues, for longer-term memories, they tended to remember more negative experiences than positive ones. ...
Alcohol use disordertrail making testnormative datacognitive deficitsexecutive functioningBackground: Patients with alcohol use disorders (AUD) often show cognitive impairment, particularly in executive functions that has been linked to poor treatment outcomes. The Trail Making Test (TMT) is the most ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Perfectionist traits—higher self-criticism, and unrealistic standards leading to isolation—are associated with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to the first study directly comparing patients with AUD to a healthy control group. Perfectionist people strive for unre...
Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a significant public health problem. A better understanding of the psychosocial factors contributing to AUD is important for developing public health policy. The purpose of this study was to identify social mechanisms involved in AUD and, more specifically,...
Aubin's group thought the drug duo might work against alcohol use disorder because cyproheptadine works on brain cell receptors linked to impulsive behaviors, while prazosin targets receptors associated with cravings. Speaking in an American Psychiatric Association news release, Aubin noted that current ...
Extended-release naltrexone (XRNTX) is an effective treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). We sought to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of XRNTX delivered as a stand-alone service to persons with severe AUD who are high utilizers of...
Individuals with severe mental illness bear an enormous burden owing to smoking and alcohol and drug use. In a large, multiethnic sample, we found substance use among individuals with severe psychotic disorder to be markedly higher than in population control individuals at a rate that far exceeded...
In a double-blind study, researchers gave the drug prazosin or a placebo to 100 people entering outpatient treatment after being diagnosed with alcohol use disorder. All of the patients had experienced varying degrees of withdrawal symptoms prior to entering treatment. ...
The paper "Ketamine adjunctive to relapse prevention based psychological therapy as a treatment for alcohol use disorder" is published today in theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry. The paper on participants' experiences, entitled "This is something that changed my life: a qualitative study of patients"...