Investigating biases of attention and memory for alcohol-related and negative words in alcohol-dependents with and without major depression after day-clinic treatment
| Autor: | Thomas Beblo, Johanna Kissler, Christina Fridrici, Martin Driessen, Georg Kremer, Katja Wingenfeld |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Poison control Alcohol Comorbidity Neuropsychological Tests Suicide prevention chemistry.chemical_compound Directed forgetting Alcohol Stroop Memory Germany Injury prevention Humans Major depression Attention Biological Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Depressive Disorder Major Human factors and ergonomics Recognition Psychology Motivated forgetting Middle Aged Alcoholism Psychiatry and Mental health chemistry Stroop Test Female Cues Psychology Photic Stimulation Stroop effect Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research. 218:311-318 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.041 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to investigate attentional and memory biases in alcohol-dependents with and without major depression compared to healthy controls. We assumed that both groups of alcohol-dependents would show attentional and memory biases for alcohol-related words. For the alcohol-dependents with depression, we additionally expected both types of biases for negative words. Alcohol-dependents without co-morbidity (Alc) and alcohol-dependents with major depression (D-Alc) as well as control participants with a moderate consumption of alcohol (Con) completed an alcohol Stroop task and a directed forgetting paradigm using word stimuli from three categories: neutral, negative, and alcohol-related. Stroop effects showed that not only alcohol-dependents but also control participants were more distracted by alcohol-related than by negative words. In the directed forgetting procedure, all participants showed a significant effect for each word-category, including alcohol-related and negative words. The D-Alc-group memorized more alcohol-related than negative to-be-remembered words. The results do not corroborate the hypothesis of more pronounced attentional and memory biases in alcohol-dependents. However, in alcohol-dependents with depression a memory bias for alcohol-related material was found, suggesting that this group may be more pre-occupied with alcohol than patients without such co-morbidity. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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