ArticleExperimental brain research2018
Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users.
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- A systematic review of the impact of future-oriented thinking on academic outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of episodic future thinking on reinforcement pathology during smoking cessation treatment among individuals with substance use disorders.Psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Cognitive Dysfunction in the Addictions (CDiA): protocol for a neuron-to-neighbourhood collaborative research program.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Drinking to Cope is Uniquely Associated with Less Specific and Bleaker Future Goal Generation in Young Hazardous Drinkers.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2023Article
- How do cannabis users mentally travel in time? Evidence from an fMRI study of episodic future thinking.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Evaluating effects of episodic future thinking on valuation of delayed reward in cocaine use disorder: a pilot study.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2021Article
- Imagining the Future to Reshape the Past: A Path to Combine Cue Extinction and Memory Reconsolidation With Episodic Foresight for Addiction Treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Role of User Behaviour in Improving Cyber Security Management.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- A Neurobehavioral Approach to Addiction: Implications for the Opioid Epidemic and the Psychology of Addiction.Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society · 2019Review
- The Functions of Prospection - Variations in Health and Disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Episodic future thinking refers to the ability to travel forward in time to pre-experience an event. Although future thinking has been intimately linked with self and identity, to our knowledge, no prior research has compared episodic future thinking in populations with different substance use disorders. This study investigates whether there are differences in episodic future thinking between these alcohol and opiate users. The study recruited participants who were on the opiate substitution program (n = 31) and individuals who had been diagnosed with alcohol dependence (n = 21) from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Drug and Health Services. Healthy controls (n = 23) were recruited via Royal Prince Alfred Hospital databases and the general community. Past and future thinking was measured using four cue words. After each cue word, participants rated their phenomenological experience (e.g. emotion, reliving experience). Results indicated that alcohol-dependent individuals performed significantly higher in episodic future thinking compared to opiate users. These findings indicate that not all substance use disorder groups share similar episodic thinking capabilities. Our results suggest that the self-projection component of rehabilitation programs may have to be tailored to the different episodic construction abilities found in substance use disorder groups.
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