AAT for Alcohol Use Disorder in Veterans
Alcohol Use Disorder
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Alcohol Use Disorder focused on measuring alcohol, cognitive training, intervention, neuroimaging
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- fluent in English
- primary diagnosis of AUD with no more than 90 days abstinence from alcohol
- 4-week stability if taking psychotropic medications
Exclusion Criteria:
- lifetime history of psychotic or bipolar disorder
- neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental disorders
- history of moderate or severe traumatic brain injury or other known neurological condition
- sensory deficits that would preclude completing tasks
- suicidal or homicidal ideation within the past month necessitating urgent higher level care
- concurrent individual psychotherapy or other treatment outside of standard DDRP programming
- conditions unsafe for completing MRI scanning for those completing the scanning component only (e.g., metal in body)
Sites / Locations
- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CARecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Sham Comparator
Approach Avoidance Training
Sham Training
AAT condition, participants use a joystick to respond to the color of the border surrounding the stimulus images presented (i.e., "pull for green, push for blue"). The stimuli used are alcohol-related images and neutral beverage images. To experimentally manipulate automatic action tendencies, a contingency is set between alcohol stimuli and avoidance behaviors
In the Sham participants use a joystick to respond to the color of the border surrounding stimulus images presented. There is no contingency between instruction type and pictures (i.e., non-training version of the task)