Brain training boosts detox success: study

Cognitive bias modification increases the odds of patients being treated for alcohol use disorder remaining abstinent, researchers show
Clare Pain
Man saying no to alcohol - hand pushing it away

Four short sessions of a computerised neurocognitive training intervention during inpatient alcohol detoxification can reduce relapse in the crucial days after patients return to usual life, an Australian trial shows.

Victorian researchers allocated 300 people with moderate or severe alcohol use disorder to either 15-minute sessions of cognitive bias modification on four consecutive days or sham treatment.