Enhancing Prospective Thinking in Early Recovery (NERF)

Enhancing Prospective Thinking in Early Recovery

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the prosocial effects of personally-relevant, high-intensity episodic future-thinking (EFT) cues in alcohol use disorder persons and related brain mechanisms. The main question[s] this trial aims to answer are:

Will high-intensity EFT cues will produce greater delayed reward preference than low-intensity cues? Will high-intensity EFT cues effect greater treatment-seeking interest? Will high-intensity EFT cues elicit greater response in regions for prospective thinking during delay discounting (vs. low-intensity) Will nucleus accumbens-precuneus resting connectivity correlate with behavioral SS? Will the novel behavioral SS decision-making task activate the nucleus accumbens? Researchers will compare the experimental (high-intensity group) and control (low-intensity) groups to see if there are differences in the results for the questions outlined above.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Abstinence between 30 days ≤ 1 year
• Verbal endorsement of commitment to recovery
• English comprehension

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unstable medical disorders
• Outside the age range of 18-60
• Habitual substance or alcohol use
• Smell/taste disorders
• Unstable psychiatric conditions