Social Cognition in Opioid Use Disorder

• DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2023.2201845
• Publication Date: 2023-04-25T06:34:58Z
• Authors: Emre Yazgeç; Emre Bora; Seda İngeç; R. Oğulcan Çıray; Başak Bağcı; Tunç Alkın
• Keywords: Neurocognitive; Anger management

Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) is associated with significant functional impairment and neurocognitive dysfunction, but only a handful of studies have investigated social cognitive abilities in this condition. This study aimed to investigate facial emotion recognition accuracy/biases two different aspects theory mind (ToM) (ToM-decoding vs ToM-reasoning) people recovered OUD. Methods: The participants included 32 OUD who were on Buprenorphine + Naloxone (B/N) maintenance treatment healthy controls. In addition tasks, both groups assessed by task, the faux pas reading from eyes task. Results: comparison controls, B/N showed deficits (d = 1.32) ToM 0.87-1.21). analyses individual emotions, had decreased accuracy anger fear bias identify other emotions as sad. duration opioid was robustly difficulties anger. Conclusion: People recognizing mental states others. Deficits cognition might be important for understanding interpersonal functioning