Rationale: A cue-modulated startle test recently confirmed that smoking cues in smokers may not be withdrawal-like and aversive as traditionally believed. Objective: Analogous tests were applied to alcohol cues in inpatient alcoholics. Methods: Twenty-six withdrawn alcoholics (18 men) were examined. Alcohol-related pictures were compared to standardised pleasant, neutral or unpleasant control scenes using an acoustic startle test and measures of pleasure, arousal and desire for alcohol. Results: Pictures depicting preparation for drinking (cues) were different from unpleasant control pictures and similar to pleasant pictures but only on the startle test; no differential effects were found for alcohol craving and mixed motivational effects were reported subjectively. The effects were not due to arousal and control pictures depicting post-drinking events showed less effect than the alcohol cues. Conclusions: New techniques of measuring drug cue motivation indicate that drug cues may have incentive properties in individuals in treatment for alcoholism.
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R.F. Mucha & A. Geier
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Osianderstrasse 22, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany, , , , ,
M. Stuhlinger & G. Mundle
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About this article Cite this articleMucha, R., Geier, A., Stuhlinger, M. et al. Appetitive effects of drug cues modelled by pictures of the intake ritual: generality of cue-modulated startle examined with inpatient alcoholics. Psychopharmacology 151, 428–432 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000508
Received: 29 March 2000
Accepted: 01 June 2000
Issue Date: September 2000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002130000508
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