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• first study

• AD patients reported an overall problem with emotion regulation compared with SDs

• particular with emotional awareness and impulse control

• voidant copin

• shorter periods of remission

• indicating that impulse control disorders may affect the occurrence, course, and treatment of substance abuse

• ignificantly improved awareness and clarity of their emotional experience

• hronic alcohol abuse to be associated with stress and cue-related neuroadaptations in the medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate regions of the brain

• strongly implicated in the self-regulation of emotion and behavioral self-contro

• impulsivity in distress states may reflect a change in priority from self-control to affect regulation

• alcoholics susceptible to poor decision-making and increased vulnerability to relapse

• treatments that place emphasizes on coping skills- based treatment

• limited to the first 4 weeks following withdrawa

• discriminatory ability between AD individuals and SDs as well as sensitivity to detect changes in ER during protracted alcohol abstinence