Dr Kyriaki Nikolaou: Cognitive Training for Alcohol Abuse
Your Brain Uncovered with Aya Tarabeine
English - May 30, 2022 08:30 - 27 minutes - 25 MBSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Around one in five residents of the UK will develop an alcohol use disorder, such as dependence, during their lifetime. While some people will seek treatment for problem drinking, more than half of patients who go through inpatient withdrawal treatment, or detox, relapse within two weeks of discharge. Luckily, in this episode, we are joined by Dr Kyriaki Nikolaou to learn more about the positive results of cognitive brain training for people going through detox. Dr Nikolaou is a psychology lecturer at the University of Sussex. There, she happens to also investigate the neurocognitive underpinnings of cognitive biases to alcohol-related stimuli in heavy drinkers.
- Academic Profile:
- https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p247247-kyriaki-nikolaou/about
- Discussed Publications:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/npp201334.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs40429-015-0053-z
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11065-018-9386-4
Most importantly, we would like to kindly credit Professor Victoria Manning and her team for developing the app "SWIPE".
- Link to the application:
https://www.swipebraintraining.com.au/