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Journal Article
A high working memory load prior to memory retrieval reduces craving in non-treatment seeking problem drinkers
2018
Overview
Background
Reconsolidation-based interventions have been suggested to be a promising treatment strategy for substance use disorders. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a working memory intervention to interfere with the reconsolidation of alcohol-related memories in a sample of non-treatment seeking heavy drinkers.
Methods
Participants were randomized to one of the two conditions that underwent a 3-day intervention: in the experimental condition, a 30-min working memory training was performed immediately after a 15-min memory retrieval session (i.e., within the memory reconsolidation time-window), whereas in the control condition, the working memory training was performed prior to a memory retrieval session.
Results
In contrast to our original hypothesis, a high working memory load after memory retrieval did not interfere with the reconsolidation of those memories while a high working memory load prior to memory retrieval (the original control condition) strongly reduced retrieval-induced craving and craving for alcohol at follow-up.
Conclusion
Whereas the neurocognitive mechanism behind this effect needs to be further investigated, the current findings suggest that, if replicated, working memory training prior to addiction-related memory retrieval has the potential to become an effective (adjunctive) intervention in the treatment of substance use disorders.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Adult
/ Alcohol Drinking - prevention & control
/ Alcohol Drinking - psychology
/ Animals
/ Behavior, Addictive - diagnosis
/ Behavior, Addictive - prevention & control
/ Behavior, Addictive - psychology
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Drug use
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Memory Consolidation - physiology
/ Memory, Short-Term - physiology
/ Photic Stimulation - methods
/ Studies
