ArticlePsychopharmacology2010
Effects of alcohol preload on attentional bias towards cocaine-related cues.
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- The impact of alcohol priming on craving and motivation to drink: a meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Attention Biases in Opioid, Cannabis, Stimulant Use Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- The efficacy of attention bias modification therapy in cocaine use disorders.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2016Trial
- The effects of reward uncertainty and alcohol intoxication on human sign- and goal-tracking.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Cocaine Cues Used in Experimental Research: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Similarities and Differences in Psychology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Attentional biases in abstinent patients with cocaine use disorder: rapid orienting or delayed disengagement?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Co-designing a Mobile Gamified Attention Bias Modification Intervention for Substance Use Disorders: Participatory Research Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- Variations in the Visual Probe Paradigms for Attention Bias Modification for Substance Use Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers.Psychopharmacology · 2018Article
- Cognitive Biases in Cannabis, Opioid, and Stimulant Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Alcohol Administration Increases Cocaine Craving But Not Cocaine Cue Attentional Bias.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2015Article
- The magnitude of drug attentional bias is specific to substance use disorder.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2015Article
- A critical review of the literature on attentional bias in cocaine use disorder and suggestions for future research.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2014Review
- Test-retest reliability of eye tracking during the visual probe task in cocaine-using adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- Fixation time is a sensitive measure of cocaine cue attentional bias.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2014Article
- Cannabis intoxication inhibits avoidance action tendencies: a field study in the Amsterdam coffee shops.Psychopharmacology · 2013Article
- Effects of alcohol cues and alcohol intoxication on drug use expectancies among men who have sex with men.Addictive behaviors · 2013Article
- Clinical correlates of attentional bias to drug cues associated with cocaine dependence.The American journal on addictionsArticle
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Abstract
backgroundDrug and alcohol users have an 'attentional bias' for substance-related cues, which is likely to reflect the incentive-motivational properties of those cues. Furthermore, administration of an alcohol preload increases attentional bias for alcohol and tobacco-related cues in heavy drinkers and tobacco smokers, respectively. The present study investigated attentional bias for cocaine cues in cocaine users and non-users following administration of either alcohol or placebo.
methodThirty-two regular cocaine users and 40 non-users took part. Participants were administered alcohol or placebo, and administration was double blind. After drink administration, a Visual Probe task and Modified Stroop task were used to assess attentional bias. Subjective craving and alcohol outcome expectancies were also measured.
resultsThere was a significant interaction between group and drink type on the visual probe task indicating that cocaine users who had received alcohol had increased attentional bias for cocaine pictures compared to non-users and cocaine users who received placebo. The cocaine Stroop revealed no differences between cocaine users and non-users, and no effects of alcohol in either group.
conclusionsAlcohol preload in regular cocaine users increases attentional bias for cocaine cues. However, cocaine users who received placebo did not show attentional bias for cocaine stimuli. Future research should investigate the effects of alcohol preload on attentional bias in cocaine-dependent individuals.
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