Virtual reality-based cue exposure therapy reduces psychological craving in men with methamphetamine use disorder: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Reducing psychological craving is critical for preventing relapse in methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of virtual reality (VR)-based cue exposure therapy (CET) and cue exposure with aversion therapy (CETA) in ...
Qiuping Huang +10 more
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Predictors of subjective and physiological craving during VR-cue exposure in alcohol use disorder: an explorative single-arm clinical study [PDF]
Background Craving is a diagnostic criterion and predictive factor in alcohol use disorder (AUD). In Virtual Reality Cue Exposure (VR-CE), it is intentionally induced as a basis for Virtual Reality Cue Exposure Therapy.
Alva Lütt +13 more
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Alcohol Craving in Heavy and Occasional Alcohol Drinkers After Cue Exposure in a Virtual Environment: The Role of the Sense of Presence [PDF]
The development of new technologies, and more specifically the opportunity to immerse participants in virtual controlled environments, provides a new ecological framework for researchers to study complex behaviors.
Jessica Simon +3 more
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Virtual reality cue exposure as an add-on to smoking cessation group therapy: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Background Cue exposure (CE) is used for relapse prevention as part of smoking cessation therapy to reduce the automatized response to smoking-related cues.
A. M. Kroczek +7 more
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Exploring the relationship between cue-induced craving and withdrawal craving in MUD individuals based on a virtual-reality cue exposure paradigm [PDF]
Background This study developed a virtual reality (VR) drug cue exposure paradigm for individuals with methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) to investigate the characteristics of withdrawal craving and cue-induced craving and their relationship.
Qiuping Huang +10 more
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Drug-Specific Global Attentional Bias in Females with Drug Use Disorder: Response Slowing Under Short but Not Long Cue Exposure [PDF]
Background/Objectives: Attentional bias toward drug-related cues is a characteristic of drug dependence and plays a detrimental role during drug withdrawal. The present study examined attentional bias in female individuals with drug dependence.
Biye Wang +5 more
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Cue-induced smoking urges deplete cigarette smokers' self-control resources
Background: Exposure to smoking-related cues leads to increased urge to smoke in regular cigarette smokers and resisting these urges requires considerable self-control.
C. Leung (7034159) +7 more
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Attempts to control invasive species using species-specific pheromones need to incorporate an understanding of interactive effects among those pathways.
Samantha McCann +2 more
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Role of aggressivity on reactivity and craving before and after cue exposure in recently detoxified alcoholics: Results from an experimental study [PDF]
The role of aggressivity and cue exposure in induction of craving were investigated in a clinical setting. Thirty abstinent alcoholic patients were divided into a low and a high aggressive group based on scores on the physical aggression subscale of the ...
Schütz, Christian G. +2 more
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Effects of irritability on craving before and after cue exposure in abstinent alcoholic inpatients: Experimental data on subjective response and heart rate [PDF]
Objective: Irritability is often linked with problem drinking. The aim of this study is to examine the possible influence of irritability on craving induced by a cue-exposure paradigm.
Schütz, Christian G. +2 more
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