ArticleBiological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2018
Working Memory Training Improves Alcohol Users' Episodic Future Thinking: A Rate-Dependent Analysis.
Article in Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT05879198 (Train Your Brain), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation in executive deficits resulting from alcohol use disorder: systematic review of literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A Patient-Tailored Evidence-Based Approach for Developing Early Neuropsychological Training Programs in Addiction Settings.Neuropsychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive performance in individuals exhibiting addictive behaviors: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Pooled it
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- Effects of episodic future thinking on reinforcement pathology during smoking cessation treatment among individuals with substance use disorders.Psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Cognitive training in recently-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder improves emotional stroop performance: Evidence from a randomized pilot trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
- Bleak present, bright future: II. Combined effects of episodic future thinking and scarcity on delay discounting in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Working Memory Training in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Trial
- Predictors of Effective Working Memory Training in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorders.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Trial
- The Genoeconomics of Impulsive Intertemporal Choice: A Critical Review.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- Episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting in individuals with problematic substance use: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- The enduring legacy of Peter B. Dews: Rate-dependency and impulsive choice.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025Review
- Approach-Bias Retraining and Other Training Interventions as Add-On in the Treatment of AUD Patients.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- The impact of memory training on abstinence among individuals with alcohol use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Connectivity Changes Following Episodic Future Thinking in Alcohol Use Disorder.Brain connectivity · 2024Article
- Human laboratory models of reward in substance use disorder.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2024Review
- Is Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Effective for Cognitive Dysfunction in Substance Use Disorders? A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain.Learning & behavior · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundEpisodic thinking, whether past or future, uses similar neural machinery, and individuals with alcohol dependence have clear challenges with both. Moreover, alcohol-dependent individuals' narrowed temporal window likely gives rise to greater valuation of immediate rewards. We aimed to strengthen working memory (WM) in alcohol-dependent individuals and measure performance on near-transfer (novel WM) and far-transfer delay discounting (DD) tasks, including episodic future thinking (EFT) performance. Importantly, heterogeneous intervention responses could obscure a treatment effect due to individuals' baseline differences. Therefore, we considered WM, DD, and EFT DD scores using rate-dependent analyses.
methodsA total of 50 alcohol-dependent individuals received either 20 active (Trained) or sham (Control) WM training sessions using the Cogmed adaptive WM training program. Participants completed a near-transfer novel WM task and far-transfer DD and EFT DD tasks before and after training.
resultsActive WM training improved performance on the near-transfer task. As determined by Oldham's correlation [r
conclusionsThese data support the notion that WM training improves near-transfer task performance and may enhance the effects of EFT DD in a subset of alcohol-dependent individuals trapped within the narrowest temporal window. Rate-dependent changes highlight that we should attend to baseline performance to better identify individuals who would most benefit from an intervention.
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