Implicit measures of alcohol approach and drinking identity in alcohol use disorder: A preregistered double-blind randomized trial with cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a severe and widespread mental disorder with a huge negative impact on the social, economic and health dimensions. The identification of risk factors for the development of AUD and for relapse in existing AUD are crucial for prevention and treatment approaches. Alcohol-...

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Main Authors: Hasan, A. (Author), Plewnia, C. (Author), Schroeder, P.A (Author), Schwippel, T. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc 2022
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520 3 |a Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a severe and widespread mental disorder with a huge negative impact on the social, economic and health dimensions. The identification of risk factors for the development of AUD and for relapse in existing AUD are crucial for prevention and treatment approaches. Alcohol-related implicit associations have been shown to contribute to drinking and might partially explain sudden relapses. The aims of this study are to investigate implicit associations in abstinent AUD patients and to test whether cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) modulates implicit associations. We measured performance in two alcohol-related implicit association tests (IATs) and two control tasks (flower-insect IAT, Stroop task) in 27 abstinent AUD patients with 31.5 (SD = 36) days of abstinence on average. During the execution of the tasks, we applied 1 mA cathodal or sham tDCS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) in a sham-controlled within-subject design. Results show an implicit bias of alcohol avoidance and implicit nondrinking identity for abstinent AUD patients. Cathodal tDCS modulated neither alcohol-related implicit associations nor the control tasks. This study complements knowledge about implicit alcohol-related association in AUD patients and shows no effect of a neuromodulatory intervention to alter implicit associations with the present parameters. © 2022 The Authors. Addiction Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for the Study of Addiction. 
650 0 4 |a Alcohol Drinking 
650 0 4 |a alcohol use disorder 
650 0 4 |a alcoholism 
650 0 4 |a Alcoholism 
650 0 4 |a controlled study 
650 0 4 |a craving 
650 0 4 |a double blind procedure 
650 0 4 |a Double-Blind Method 
650 0 4 |a drinking behavior 
650 0 4 |a human 
650 0 4 |a Humans 
650 0 4 |a implicit association test 
650 0 4 |a implicit associations 
650 0 4 |a physiology 
650 0 4 |a prefrontal cortex 
650 0 4 |a Prefrontal Cortex 
650 0 4 |a procedures 
650 0 4 |a randomized controlled trial 
650 0 4 |a transcranial direct current stimulation 
650 0 4 |a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation 
700 1 |a Hasan, A.  |e author 
700 1 |a Plewnia, C.  |e author 
700 1 |a Schroeder, P.A.  |e author 
700 1 |a Schwippel, T.  |e author 
773 |t Addiction Biology