Brain responses to anticipating and receiving beer: Comparing light, at‐risk, and dependent alcohol users

Impaired brain processing of alcohol‐related rewards has been suggested to play a central role in alcohol use disorder. Yet, evidence remains inconsistent and mainly originates from studies in which participants passively observe alcohol cues or taste alcohol. Here, we designed a protocol in which beer consumption was predicted by incentive cues and contingent on instrumental action closer to real life situations. We predicted that anticipating and receiving beer (compared with water) would elicit activity in the brain reward network and that this activity would correlate with drinking level across participants.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Addiction Biology

• Publication date

  2019-05-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/adb.12766PMID 31066137PMCID 7187239
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• Anticipating and receiving beer versus water is used to examine activity in the brain reward network across light, at-risk, and dependent alcohol users.

  Confidence 0.90

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• Beer consumption is made contingent on incentive cues and an instrumental action in the task design.

  Confidence 0.95

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• anticipating beer

  task phase, experimental condition

  The task phase in which participants expect beer delivery after cue presentation.

  Aliases: beer anticipation

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• beer consumption

  reward outcome, beverage

  Consumption of beer as the alcohol-reward outcome used in the experimental task.

  Aliases: beer drinking, beer reward

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• brain reward network

  brain network, neural system

  Reward-related brain circuitry targeted for measurement during alcohol-cue and beverage processing.

  Aliases: reward network

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• incentive cues

  cue, experimental stimulus

  Cue stimuli that signal upcoming beer availability in the protocol.

  Aliases: predicted cues, reward cues

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• instrumental action

  task requirement, action

  The participant action required to obtain beer in the task.

  Aliases: contingent action, required action

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• light, at-risk, and dependent alcohol users

  participant group, cohort

  Participant groups stratified by drinking severity for comparison in the study.

  Aliases: light users, at-risk users, dependent users, alcohol users

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• receiving beer

  task phase, experimental condition

  The task phase in which participants obtain beer after completing the required action.

  Aliases: beer receipt

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• water

  comparison beverage, beverage

  Water used as the non-alcoholic comparison beverage in the task.

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