Background: Alcohol-dependence is a chronic disease with a high risk of relapse. The main therapeutic outcome relies on relapse prevention which seeks to identify high risk situations and individual's response to these situations especially the emotional response to social environment. Alcohol-dependence also induces cognitive impairments leading to social cognition impairments increasing the risk of relapse. Familiarity is a key process in social interactions: it induces the feeling of prior knowledge of a stimulus without remembering consciously its identity. Followed by a second process based on the contribution of contextual information (recollection) familiarity allows face recognition. Main aim: Study of familiarity for faces in alcohol-dependence Secondary objectives: Highlighting correlations between familiarity impairments and clinical outcomes
Familiarity will be tested by a specific familiarity task using an original paradigm. This paradigm allows the analysis of familiarity as a quantitative process as well as the analysis of personal familiarity to each subject. Three familiar and three unfamiliar faces are morphed in pairs for each participant. The displayed stimuli for each pair of faces are ten morphs with 5 to 95% of familiar face increasing by 10%. Participants are asked to press a button if the displayed stimulus seems familiar. At the end of the task each participant is asked to name the identity of the familiar faces (true or false recognitions, true or false omissions). Each participant will undergo 2 visits. * First visit: * Checking the inclusion and non-inclusion criteria * Clinical report and alcohol consumption evaluation * Standardized psychiatric interview (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview - MINI) * Neuropsychological tests (Montreal Cognitive Assessment - MoCA, "Batterie Rapide d'Efficience Frontale" - BREF, "Rappel Libre et Rappel Indicé à 16 items" - Grober \& Buschke 's test - RL/RI 16) * Second visit: * Checking the non-consumption of alcohol and other drugs (cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, opioid) * Task of familiarity with a controlling task * Social cognition test (Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition - MASC)
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
42
University Hospital, Lille - CSAPA
Lille, France
University Hospital, Lille - Fontan 2
Lille, France
Familiarity threshold
calculated from the psychometric function of each participant
Time frame: 3 years
Alcohol consumption
alcohol consumption evaluation
Time frame: 3 years
MocA score
Score at the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Time frame: 3 years
BREF score
neuropsychological score
Time frame: 3 years
RL/RI score
neuropsychological score
Time frame: 3 years
non-consumption of alcohol duration
non-consumption of alcohol duration
Time frame: 3 years
social cognition test
social cognition test score
Time frame: 3 years
concomitant treatment
concomitant treatment posology
Time frame: 3 years
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