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Relationship Between Alcohol Dependence, Escape Drinking, And Early Neural Attention To Alcohol-Related Cues, Cheryl L. Dickter, Catherine A. Forestell, Patrick J. Hammett, Chelsie M. Young
Relationship Between Alcohol Dependence, Escape Drinking, And Early Neural Attention To Alcohol-Related Cues, Cheryl L. Dickter, Catherine A. Forestell, Patrick J. Hammett, Chelsie M. Young
Chelsie Young
Previous work has indicated that implicit attentional biases to alcohol-related cues are indicative of susceptibility to alcohol dependence and escape drinking, or drinking to avoid dysphoric mood or emotions. The goal of the current study was to examine whether alcohol dependence and escape drinking were associated with early neural attentional biases to alcohol cues. Electroencephalography data were recorded from 54 college students who reported that they regularly drank alcohol, while they viewed alcohol and control pictures that contained human content (active) or no human content (inactive). Those who were alcohol dependent showed more neural attentional bias to the active alcohol-related …
Take Me Away: The Relationship Between Escape Drinking And Attentional Bias For Alcohol-Related Cues, Catherine A. Forestell, Cheryl L. Dickter, Chelsie M. Young
Take Me Away: The Relationship Between Escape Drinking And Attentional Bias For Alcohol-Related Cues, Catherine A. Forestell, Cheryl L. Dickter, Chelsie M. Young
Chelsie Young
Previous research has indicated that implicit attentional bias to alcohol-related cues may serve as a cognitive measure of susceptibility to alcohol dependence. The primary goal of the current study was to examine whether college students who drink to escape dysphoric emotions or moods (i.e., escape drinkers) have stronger attentional biases for alcohol-related cues than non-escape drinkers. Additionally, because previous research has shown that presentation time and content of smoking-related stimuli moderates differences between smokers' and nonsmokers' reaction times, this study sought to determine whether these effects generalized to alcohol-related stimuli. Participants who were identified as either escape (n = 74) …