Attentional alterations in alcohol dependence are underpinned by specific executive control deficits.

@article{Maurage2014AttentionalAI,
  title={Attentional alterations in alcohol dependence are underpinned by specific executive control deficits.},
  author={Pierre Maurage and Philippe de Timary and Jo{\"e}l Billieux and Marie Collignon and Alexandre Heeren},
  journal={Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research},
  year={2014},
  volume={38 7},
  pages={
          2105-12
        }
}
BACKGROUND Attentional biases and deficits play a central role in the development and maintenance of alcohol dependence, but the underlying attentional processes accounting for these deficits have been very little explored. Importantly, the differential alterations across the 3 attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive control) remain unclear in this pathology. METHODS Thirty recently detoxified alcohol-dependent individuals and 30 paired controls completed the Attention… 
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