Cocaine-related attentional bias following trauma cue exposure among cocaine dependent in-patients with and without post-traumatic stress disorder.
Cocaine-related attentional bias following trauma cue exposure among cocaine dependent in-patients with and without post-traumatic stress disorder.
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在患有或不患有创伤后应激障碍的可卡因依赖住院患者中,创伤后与可卡因相关的注意偏差提示暴露。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03508.x
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发表时间:
2011
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Lejuez,CarlW
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Tull,MatthewT;McDermott,MichaelJ;Gratz,KimL;Coffey,ScottF;Lejuez,CarlW
AimsAlthough the co‐occurrence of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and cocaine dependence is associated with a wide range of negative clinical outcomes, little is known about the mechanisms that underlie this association. This study investigated one potential mechanism—attentional bias to cocaine imagery following trauma cue exposure.DesignMale and female cocaine‐dependent in‐patients with and without PTSD were exposed to both a neutral and personalized trauma script on separate days, followed by a visual dot‐probe task. A 2 (PTSD versus non‐PTSD) × 2 (neutral versus trauma script) × 2 (male versus female) design was used to examine hypotheses.SettingParticipants were recruited from a residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment center.ParticipantsParticipants were 60 trauma‐exposed cocaine dependent in‐patients, 30 with current PTSD and 30 without a history of PTSD.MeasurementsAttentional bias was assessed using a visual dot‐probe task depicting cocaine‐related imagery following both a neutral script and personalized trauma script.FindingsFollowing neutral script exposure, PTSD (versus non‐PTSD) participants exhibited an attentional bias away from cocaine imagery. This effect was reversed following trauma script exposure, with PTSD participants exhibiting a greater attentional bias towards the location of cocaine imagery than non‐PTSD participants. Severity of subjective distress following trauma script exposure predicted level of attentional bias among PTSD participants.ConclusionsCocaine appears to serve an emotion‐regulating function among post‐traumatic stress disorder patients and may be a potential target for brief post‐traumatic stress disorder–substance use disorder interventions that can facilitate residential substance use disorder treatment retention.