Anxiety and explicit alcohol-related memory in problem drinkers.

Anxiety is associated with increased craving following in vivo cue exposure in alcoholics. Theoretical accounts {Psychol. Rev. 97 (1990) 147.} have proposed that conscious, deliberate cognitive processes underlie increased craving in drinkers who are trying to abstain. The present study tested the h...

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Publicado en:Addictive Behaviors Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 331 - 344
Autores principales: Zack, Martin, Toneatto, Tony, MacLeod, Colin M.
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Publicado: Elsevier Science May/June 2002
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