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CATEGORIES:Department of Psychiatry &amp\; CPFT Thursday Lunc
 htime Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Computer-based trainings as an add-on to the treat
 ment of alcohol addiction: Where are we\, how did 
 we get there\, and where should we go? - Prof Mike
  Rinck\, Radboud University
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/172283
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Even after extensive treatment\, more 
 than half of the treated abstinent alcohol-depende
 nt patients start drinking again. To reduce these 
 high relapse rates\, we have developed computer-ba
 sed trainings\, aiming to modify the patients' aut
 omatic alcohol-approach tendencies by means of a s
 imple joystick task. These alcohol-avoidance train
 ings have been surprisingly successful\; they redu
 ce relapse rates by about 10%\, on average. In thi
 s talk\, I will give an overview of the developmen
 t\, evaluation\, and implementation of these train
 ings. I will address successes and failures\, I wi
 ll outline the many open questions that remain\, a
 nd I will briefly describe extensions of the train
 ing to other disorders.\n\n*Biography:* Mike Rinck
  is an Associate Professor at Radboud University N
 ijmegen\, The Netherlands\, and an Adjunct Profess
 or at Ruhr-University Bochum\, Germany. He was tra
 ined as a cognitive psychologist\; and he was alwa
 ys highly interested in applied research questions
 . His main research area is experimental psychopat
 hology: He studies biased cognitive processes such
  as attention\, learning\, memory\, associations a
 nd interpretations in various mental disorders. Mo
 re recently\, he worked in the area of Cognitive B
 ias Modification\, that is\, the use of computeriz
 ed training programs designed to re-train biased c
 ognitive processes. His special area of expertise 
 centers around the assessment and modification of 
 automatic approach-avoidance tendencies in various
  mental disorders. For more information on Prof Ri
 nck\, please visit: https://www.ru.nl/english/peop
 le/rinck-m/
LOCATION:Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk)
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