Attentional biases in abstinent patients with cocaine use disorder: rapid orienting or delayed disengagement?
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Other documents of the author: Branchadell, Victoria; Poy, Rosario; Segarra, Pilar; Ribes Guardiola, Pablo; Molto, Javier
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Attentional biases in abstinent patients with cocaine use disorder: rapid orienting or delayed disengagement?Author (s)
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2024Publisher
Frontiers MediaISSN
1664-1078Bibliographic citation
Branchadell V, Poy R, Segarra P, Ribes-Guardiola P and Moltó J (2024) Attentional biases in abstinent patients with cocaine use disorder: rapid orienting or delayed disengagement? Front. Psychol. 15:1290890. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1290890Type
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Addiction-related attentional biases may play a central role in the development
and maintenance of drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors. However,
evidence in cocaine dependence is limited and mixed. This study ... [+]
Addiction-related attentional biases may play a central role in the development
and maintenance of drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors. However,
evidence in cocaine dependence is limited and mixed. This study examined
the time course and component processes of attentional biases for cocaine related cues in a sample of 47 outpatients (38 men) with cocaine use disorder
(CUD) with varying durations of current abstinence. Reaction times in a visual
dot-probe task with two picture exposure durations —500 ms, to assess
initial stages of attention, and 2,000 ms, to assess maintained attention—
were recorded. We found faster responses to probes replacing cocaine-related vs. matched control pictures in the 500 ms but not in the 2,000 ms
condition, indicative of early but not late attentional biases for cocaine cues
in abstinent patients with CUD. Further comparisons with a neutral baseline
revealed that it was not due to rapid orienting but to delayed disengagement
from cocaine-related pictures, being this effect greater the longer the period
of current abstinence. Consistent with the incentive-sensitization theory,
these data suggest that cocaine-related stimuli maintain the capacity to
hold spatial attention in abstinent patients with CUD, even after months of
abstinence, highlighting the relevance of carrying out stimulus control to
avoid relapses. [-]
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Universitat Jaume I | Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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P1·1B2009-41 | PID2019-104522GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
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Adicción a la cocaína y psicopatía | Mecanismos neurobiológicos de la maldad psicopática/crueldad (meanness/callousness): evidencia electrofisiológica desde el modelo triárquico de la psicopatía
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