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Affective reactivity in heroin-dependent patients with antisocial personality disorder

Walter, Marc and Degen, Bigna and Treugut, Constanze and Albrich, Jürgen and Oppel, Monika and Schulz, André and Schächinger, Hartmut and Dürsteler-Macfarland, Kenneth M. and Wiesbeck, Gerhard A.. (2011) Affective reactivity in heroin-dependent patients with antisocial personality disorder. Psychiatry research, Vol. 187, H. 1-2. pp. 210-213.

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Abstract

The Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), one of the most common co-morbid psychiatric disorders in heroin-dependent patients, is associated with a lack of affective modulation. The present study aimed to compare the affect-modulated startle responses of opioid-maintained heroin-dependent patients with and without ASPD relative to those of healthy controls. Sixty participants (20 heroin-dependent patients with ASPD, 20 heroin-dependent patients without ASPD, 20 healthy controls) were investigated in an affect-modulated startle experiment. Participants viewed neutral, pleasant, unpleasant, and drug-related stimuli while eye-blink responses to randomly delivered startling noises were recorded continuously. Both groups of heroin-dependent patients exhibited significantly smaller startle responses (raw values) than healthy controls. However, they showed a normal affective modulation: higher startle responses to unpleasant, lower startle responses to pleasant stimuli and no difference to drug-related stimuli compared to neutral stimuli. These findings indicate a normally modulated affective reactivity in heroin-dependent patients with ASPD.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Psychiatrie (Klinik) > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie UPK > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie (Lang)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Psychiatrie (Klinik) > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie UPK > Erwachsenenpsychiatrie (Lang)
UniBasel Contributors:Wiesbeck, Gerhard A. and Walter, Marc
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0165-1781
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:27 Mar 2014 13:13

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