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Post-traumatic stress and alcohol use disorders: recent advances and future directions in cue reactivity
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Psychology. 30:109-116
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- The comorbidity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorders (AUD) is prevalent, complex, and difficult to treat. Cue reactivity paradigms offer a clinically relevant scientific avenue to advance our understanding of PTSD/AUD comorbidity and ultimately inform evidence-based interventions. Cue reactivity paradigms evoke emotional, behavioral, and/or physiological responses by manipulating external (e.g. images, smells, scripts) cues. Through evaluation of how individuals with PTSD/AUD respond to trauma or alcohol cues (e.g. craving, distress, avoidance) in 'real' time, the theoretical framework for understanding functional associations between PTSD and AUD is refined. This brief narrative review of the recent literature (2015-present) will focus upon (1) summarizing the recently published cue reactivity studies relevant to PTSD/AUD, (2) explicating the limitations of the literature, and (3) discussing future empirical directions.
- Subjects :
- Emotions
Psychological intervention
Craving
Comorbidity
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
mental disorders
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
General Psychology
05 social sciences
Traumatic stress
medicine.disease
Physiological responses
Alcohol-Induced Disorders
Distress
Cue reactivity
Narrative review
Cues
medicine.symptom
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2352250X
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....59cee7893de23067ca8d999199c166a1