Enhancing Prospective Thinking in Early Recovery
Indiana University
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the prosocial effects of personally-relevant, high-intensity episodic future-thinking (EFT) cues in alcohol use disorder persons and related brain mechanisms. The main question\[s\] this trial aims to answer are: * Will high-intensity EFT cues will produce greater delayed reward preference than low-intensity cues? * Will high-intensity EFT cues effect greater treatment-seeking interest? * Will high-intensity EFT cues elicit greater response in regions for prospective thinking during delay discounting (vs. low-intensity) * Will nucleus accumbens-precuneus resting connectivity correlate with behavioral SS? * Will the novel behavioral SS decision-making task activate the nucleus accumbens? Researchers will compare the experimental (high-intensity group) and control (low-intensity) groups to see if there are differences in the results for the questions outlined above.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–60 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Individuals who meet current heavy drinking (≥2 heavy drinking days/month OR ≥7 drinks/week for biological females, and ≥14 drinks/week if biological male \[NIAAA definition\] and/or AUDIT scores ≥8) * English comprehension Exclusion Criteria: * Unstable medical disorders * Outside the age range of 18-60 * Smell/taste disorders * Unstable psychiatric conditions
Interventions
- BehavioralHigh-Intensity Cue
Participants in the high-intensity group will receive high-intensity image cues that represent self-reported events they did on the previous day and self-reported events they look forward to in the future.
- BehavioralLow-Intensity Cue
Participants in the low-intensity group will receive low-intensity image cues that represent self-reported events they did on the previous day and self-reported events they look forward to in the future.
Location
- Indiana University School of Medicine - Goodman HallIndianapolis, Indiana