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Comorbidity of Alcoholism and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Comorbidity of Alcoholism and Antisocial Personality Disorder. R.O. Pihl McGill University. Alcoholism & ASPD. Lets avoid the definitional quagmire. Lets agree there is a significant correlation between Alcoholism and ASPD.

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Comorbidity of Alcoholism and Antisocial Personality Disorder

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  1. Comorbidity of Alcoholism and Antisocial Personality Disorder R.O. Pihl McGill University

  2. Alcoholism & ASPD • Lets avoid the definitional quagmire. • Lets agree there is a significant correlation between Alcoholism and ASPD. • Lets agree that the nature of the relationship is well understood.

  3. The Role of Different Motivational Systems • Motivational system responding to threat • The Cognitive Control System • Motivational system responding to reward

  4. Behavior (Behaviorally-linked) Sensory information Aggression Threatening or punishing behavior Executive Cognitive Functions Facilitory: Cue for Reward Inhibitory: Cue for Punishment

  5. Behavior (Behaviorally-linked) Sensory information Inhibits Aggression Threatening or punishing behavior Executive Cognitive Functions Facilitory: Cue for Reward Inhibitory: Cue for Punishment Acute Alcohol Intoxication

  6. Behavior (Behaviorally-linked) Sensory information Inhibits Aggression Threatening or punishing behavior Executive Cognitive Functions Disorganizes Facilitory: Cue for Reward Inhibitory: Cue for Punishment Acute Alcohol Intoxication

  7. Behavior (Behaviorally-linked) Sensory information Inhibits Aggression Threatening or punishing behavior Executive Cognitive Functions Disorganizes Facilitory: Cue for Reward Inhibitory: Cue for Punishment Acute Alcohol Intoxication Potentiates

  8. The Role of Different Motivational Systems • Environmental triggers • Threat, anxiety (novelty, cues of punishment, etc…) • Monotony (lack of immediate reinforcement) • Genetically influenced susceptibility • Anxiety • Boredom • Desired alcohol reinforcement • Anxiolysis (serotonin & GABA effects) • Stimulation (Dopaminergic effects)

  9. Family Pedigree

  10. Subjects with a High Heart rate Response to Alcohol Challenge • Self-rate more of a positive response • Drink more • Remember more words learned before drinking • Release more dopamine in the Ventral Striatum

  11. Positron Emission Tomography

  12. Alcohol Promotes Dopamine Release in the Human Nucleus Accumbens …and this release is associated to an increased HR response to alcohol

  13. Background Phenylalanine and tyrosine, two amino acids (AA)found in dietary protein, are the essential building blocks for the production of dopamine in the brain. Ingesting an AA mixture deficient in P&T reduces DA production by 1)causes protein synthesis diminishing the body’s stores of these AA 2) increasing competition of other AAs for transport across the blood brain barrier. Peek effect of depletion occur 4-5 hours following the ingestion of the AA mixture

  14. APTD Change in Drinking and Ethanol Cardiac Response r=.-658, p=.006

  15. Figure 1 - Mean group differences (+ SE) between Low (n = 19) and High (n = 19) Heart Rate Responders in the average of age 10 to 17 delinquency scores

  16. Figure 2 - Mean group differences (+ SE) between Low (n = 18) and High (n = 20) Heart Rate Responders in Goldberg's Adjective Markers of the Big Five assessed at age 19

  17. Figure 3 - Mean group differences (+ SE) between Low (n = 20) and High (n = 22) Heart Rate Responders in Subjective High Assessment Scale (SHAS) at age 19

  18. Apparatus: Taylor Aggression Paradigm (TAP)

  19. TAP - Mean Shock Level Selected

  20. Commonalities Alcoholism & ASPD • Unusual high heart rate response to high dose of alcohol. • High activation of the Cue for Reward System. • A system that is dopamine mediated. • Reduced ECF functioning.

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