February 2025: Real-Time Assessment of Alcohol Reward, Stimulation, and Negative Affect in Individuals With and Without Alcohol Use Disorder and Depressive Disorders

Dr. Andrea King (University of Chicago Medicine) joins AJP Audio to discuss a novel, real time assessment of the reward, stimulation, and negative affect of alcohol use in people with alcohol use disorder with and without depressive disorders. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin discusses the rest of the February issue, which focuses closely on issues surrounding addiction.

• 00:35 King interview
• 00:45 Allostatic model of addiction
• 02:12 Gathering data and the groups studied
• 07:37 The ethics of studying alcohol use in patients with AUD
• 10:38 Findings
• 13:29 The impacts of alcohol’s pleasurable effects on people with AUD and those without
• 14:32 Limitations of natural environment research versus laboratory research
• 18:18 Clinical implications
• 20:09 Further research
• 22:56 Kalin interview
• 23:03 King et al.
• 26:21 Brand et al.
• 28:12 Conway et al.
• 32:17 Kypriotakis et al.
• 35:42 Kuhn et al.
• 39:37 Grilo et al.

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