Social cognition and interaction in stimulant use disorders

Beyond impairments in attention, memory, and executive functions, chronic users of stimulant drugs also display specific disturbances in social cognition, which are contributing to social dysfunctions in their daily life. Recent studies have shown overlapping alterations in fear recognition from faces, emotion recognition from complex visual stimuli, emotional empathy, and mental and emotional perspective-taking ( Theory-of-Mind ) in stimulant users. Additionally, stimulant users often have smaller social networks and show less prosocial behaviour in game-theoretical social decision-making tasks. In social interaction and social feedback tasks during functional imaging cocaine users revealed decreased activation of the medial-frontal reward system. In conclusion, training of social reward and social cognition might improve social functioning including therapeutic relationships and, thus, enhance treatment success in stimulant addiction.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Current opinion in behavioral sciences

• Publication date

  2017-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.COBEHA.2016.10.001
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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