Trial reportAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2018
Predictors of Effective Working Memory Training in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorders.
Trial report in Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05879198 (Train Your Brain), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Train Your Brain: A Pilot Project to Improve Memory and Decision Making to Improve Outcomes Among Youth
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cognitive Training Effectiveness on Memory, Executive Functioning, and Processing Speed in Individuals With Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- A Personalized and Smartphone-Based Serious Gaming App Targeting Cognitive Impairments in Alcohol Use Disorder: Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial Among Outpatients.JMIR mental health · 2025Trial
- 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
- Cognitive functioning as an underutilized determinant of treatment planning: a review in alcohol use disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Impulsive Decision Reduction Training (IDRT) reduces binge drinking and increases future orientation in young adult binge drinkers.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- The Effects of Working Memory versus Adaptive Visual Search Control Training on Executive Cognitive Function.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2022Article
- Review
- How Alcohol Influences Mechanisms of Sexual Risk Behavior Change: Contributions of Alcohol Challenge Research to the Development of HIV Prevention Interventions.AIDS and behavior · 2021Review
- Working memory moderates the relation between implicit alcohol associations and heavy episodic drinking in moderate-to-heavy drinking men who have sex with men.Addictive behaviors · 2021Article
- The problems with delay discounting: a critical review of current practices and clinical applications.Psychological medicine · 2021Review
- Why Does Cognitive Training Yield Inconsistent Benefits? A Meta-Analysis of Individual Differences in Baseline Cognitive Abilities and Training Outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Brain+ AlcoRecover: A Randomized Controlled Pilot-Study and Feasibility Study of Multiple-Domain Cognitive Training Using a Serious Gaming App for Treating Alcohol Use Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The role of proactive interference in working memory training and transfer.Psychological research · 2020Article
- Intelligence moderates the relationship between delay discounting rate and problematic alcohol use.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- Brain Structure and Function in Recovery.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2020Review
- Cognitive training as a component of treatment of alcohol use disorder: A review.Neuropsychology · 2019Review
- The Influence of Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability on Working Memory Training Gains.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundLow working memory (WM) capacity is associated with alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The importance of WM to adaptive functioning has led to a recent influx of studies attempting to improve individual WM capacity using various cognitive training methods. The present study aimed to examine the efficacy of complex WM training for improving WM capacity among individuals with AUD.
methodsIndividuals were randomized to complete either adaptive WM training or active control training. We applied a methodologically rigorous and structured approach, including a battery of near and moderate transfer measures in those with AUDs and a control group. Additionally, we examined cognitive factors (at baseline) and other predictors of adherence, training task improvement, and transfer.
resultsResults suggest improved WM in individuals with AUDs and controls, as evidenced by improved scores on several transfer measures, after adaptive WM training. However, individuals with AUDs showed poorer adherence and less improvement on the training tasks themselves. Neither IQ, WM, sex, nor condition predicted adherence. Level of training task performance, baseline WM, and IQ predicted transfer task improvement.
conclusionsThis is the first study to rigorously examine both the efficacy of WM training in those with AUDs, and predictors of successful training program adherence and transfer in a large sample. Among study completers, results suggest that AUD status does not predict training improvement and transfer. However, AUD status did predict lower program adherence. WM training was more effective in those with higher cognitive ability at baseline. This study provides direct translation to the development of cognitive interventions for treating AUD.
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